What News, Where? I Didn't See no Stinkin' News!

Okay, are people getting dumber, wholesale?  Am I getting older?   

I've been trying to get on with some reading, just to catch up on the world at large, and I am amazed at the superficiality with which world news is treated.  Are people just so used to the 15-second sound bite that they’ve lost their ability to concentrate for any respectable length of time, and so do not even realise the gaping chasms in the amount and quality of the information we receive?

Now, when I was a teenager, I expected that sort of thing from newsmagazines and the like, even welcomed it, because I had so much studying to do, it was good if I could get easy-to-read summaries of news someplace.

 Now, however, when I *want* to read something more in-depth, I’m rather at a loss as to where to find it.  The ‘news’ online is just the same old regurgitated lines, no matter how many different websites I cruise to.  I am dismayed by the pseudo reporting: whether it’s the death of Peter Falk, or the current BBC series on the new Chinese billionaires, there is only a minimum amount of surface reporting.

I don't want infomercials, I don't want adverts or propaganda, I want news!

Was it always like this?

Where do you turn to read fuller reports?  Comments?  Advice?