Case in point, the dying newspaper. When I subscribed to the paper I may not have read every article, but I looked at every page. If I saw something of interest - I would read it. Now you look at the top headlines and move on.
Sports - I used to check the box scores of former MU players every day. It took all of about 20 seconds. Now? Click on NBA, click on scores, click on game, click on box score and repeat process for each player.
Fake news dominates in todays world because you see it more than you see real news.
A certain sports anchor here in town told me he used to scour the high school box scores looking for a story. He found one not all that long ago where all the girls who scored for one team had the same last name. He thought it was a misprint. He looked into it and found that the basketball coach had the same name. He dug deeper and found his story. These girls were all orphaned at a very young age and this coach and his wife adopted all five of them. Online or even with today's paper he never would have found that story and it still ranks as one of his all time favorites.