I'm told that there's a great deal of automatically generated sports reporting. Good reporting is actually much rarer these days, because no one online wants to pay for it. Recent years have also seen the rise of Buzzfeed and Breitbart. The journalists seem to think that there's a journalism crisis. I might suggest that you have been confining yourself to high-quality news sources, to where you don't see that this is a problem, but I don't think many of those exist. If you have strong feelings about the image of programming in tech-pop, you may reflect upon the varying levels at which people might value such a thing, and try to be constructive in your criticism.
