I certainly understand your point of view. Historically, published articles and books were proofed, edited, perhaps even peer reviewed and therefore considered to have sane and accurate information. Anybody can publish any random nonsense on the Internet. However, I would put forward that with the conglomeration of major media outlets and consolidating of information sources, only "approved" information is getting in any of those primary, and once trusted, media sources.
The onus is now on each individual to fact check, validate, and use critical thinking on any information source. But Internet-based sources are more likely to be freer of interference. Although even that is ceasing to be true as Facebook, Google, and other major online repositories of information start their own purging and blocking of contrary ideas. Honestly, it may be only a few years before well documented and thought out articles from completely anonymous sources found on obscure sites will be the closest to honest information we can find.
