I mean, the heyday of print news was almost a century ago and televised news decades ago.

Basically all digital news outlets, outside of just a few notable outliers, have no money to produce anything but low effort articles that are just a vehicle to show ads. And some of those are active propaganda outlets for basically nothing but evil interest groups.

What is there to have a positive view about...?

Society stopped paying for journalism and we got what we paid for.