Unfortunately, that seems to be the quality of "professional" journalism nowadays. I wouldn't be surprised if AI was complicit as well (though I don't supposed it'd make a difference as the slop was just as low quality prior to recent years, it may as well have been AI generated then too).

It used to be indie publications, and now I find indie YouTubers tend to be generally superior (though you still have to do your own filtering and selection of course).