A large part of the news/money problem is the practical, space-and-time-saving desire to reduce an almost hopelessly complex, point-in-time decision to a single, overarching, global statement, such as "It really comes down to a detached CEO, and incompetent leadership." And when you boil this desire down to Twitter's level of brevity, it gets completely untenable.

Someone else in this thread argues that Twitter may be the most-important news service going now, and I agree. The fact that the platform itself is specifically engineered to be so antithetical to honest fact and debate really demonstrates our societal values about money versus truth or social cohesion.