I hope the new one won't make the same mistakes.

What new one? Where is? Tell me, I’ve been waiting for it for almost a decade I think. Tell me where.

Tbh this was always the case. Yellow journalism was arguably worse, not that it has fully disappeared either. Print sales of old weren’t different from an industry dominated by ever lower advertising rate cards/eCPM. The public platforms which make it happen now just brought it to our attention on a larger scale. But paparazzi and journos hunting stories by calling, visiting subjects for days, weeks weren’t/aren’t different.

The biggest problem is that news is mostly only monetized by views. Views equate advertising sales. So whether you pay premium subscription rates, for platforms like De Correspondent (Netherlands), who also make a lot of revenue from events, or... it’s what happens and always has.