In less than 100 years we went from sending news via envoys or on horseback to compressing it and sending it over a wire.
The only time you would ever go to the effort to send news, back then, was if it was important or vital, but crucially it was actionable.
The decay comes from using the same channels, or even creating new channels, to disseminate info that is not meant to be actioned but simply consumed.
The regulations around that production were stripped away and so was the trust that the info you now consume is valid.
In less than 100 years we went from sending news via envoys or on horseback to compressing it and sending it over a wire.
The only time you would ever go to the effort to send news, back then, was if it was important or vital, but crucially it was actionable.
The decay comes from using the same channels, or even creating new channels, to disseminate info that is not meant to be actioned but simply consumed.
The regulations around that production were stripped away and so was the trust that the info you now consume is valid.