Interesting article and well documented.

Our everyday media feed is either bias or force you to read irrelevant articles due to click bait tactics or masking the news content in deceiving titles.
Steemit can prove to a be a way that online media will deliver a quality content due to its upvote system that can prevent the content that lacks substance from being at the top.Although it seems that the system is on someways bulletproof, it has it's flaws.You can not control the people that upvote, so, in consequence some extraordinary content may "dust off" due to lack of support from the right people, or, in some cases, people will get offended by the truth and decide not to promote the post.