I mean people will talk a lot about the shit like reading-levels and attention spans in our society, but the reason news items and articles on mainstream media are all transforming into 600 word shitposts with multiple links to "someone said on Twitter" is literally a top-down decision. These platforms aren't about news anymore, they're about selling "content" to advertisers by volume; shorter pieces means faster clicks and bigger totals. They don't care about the quality at all.