One big problem unfortunately that you have Kim, is that many people, as smart as you and even lots of us maybe even smarter than you but not hanging round the halls of power and making huge incomes, are reading the essays that so-called legitimate media is selling and realizing it's just bits of gossip strung together with the missing bits filled in like our eyes/optic circuitry fill in what we see according to learned patterns humans seek. As it is, half-smartish people realize that prose is baloney and the journalis just want  re-erect the barriers to entry you see falling around you.  You are so immersed in your elite construct, you believe that which you write is relevant and important - to us  And it is - to you.  Smart people (there are more than you can imagine Kim) DO know the difference between real and "fake" news but also know most of it is irrelevant to the real existential needs of their families and selves. THAT is what you and Greenspon and the others fear.