The problem is the Internet and marketing. People want to read articles of a certain length, full of buzzwords so they can skim it and get the gist of it. Marketing departments are fine with this tactic because that is how they get ad revenue from that article except buzzwords are called keywords. Rather than having writers on staff that can write compelling articles, sites focus more on writers that can integrate Search Engine Optimization (SEO) into articles quickly and smoothly so that human readers can comprehend it.

The importance of the article has shifted from the content for people to content for Google AdWords and that is where I think we have the disconnect with today's "journalists".

Sites that employ people to write well written, compelling, articles full of content and details are often left on page five, or worse, on Google results while the pages on top are SEO pieces that are not full of quality content for the most part.

This causes readers to check out more than one source for information, negating the whole "save time" ideal because now they have to skim several articles to get an idea of what is good or not. They find something of interest and Google that, then skim again.

What is sad is, if they would just look for quality content and follow a set of websites that give it, rather than the "leaders in the industry" according to Google then they would save some time and probably get better information all around.

Love the hook about Cuphead by the way. That got me to read the whole article and it was great. Thanks for the points you brought up - I had completely forgotten about solar roadways and the crapfest that turned out to be.