You must have missed the gigantic outcry against bloggers. Suddenly anyone with a keyboard could report news, and journalists interpreted it as a threat. Remember when the blog Little Green Footballs broke the Dan Rather fake news story? The animated .gif heard 'round the world? His fake memo was exposed by rewriting it in MS Word and playing it back and forth with the document that CBS released. They were identical. MS Word didn't exist in the 70s. A major journalist, a highly credible and respected news anchor, got caught in a lie that they were accustomed to getting away with. It was a huge embarrassment, and instead of resolving to be better, they resolved to declare war on bloggers.

Then we were all treated to an entertaining cavalcade of people coming out with bizarre theories of obscure typewriters in the 70s that could possibly type the memo, when it was an obvious forgery. Journalists didn't take this as a warning to not publish fake news, they took it as an assault. One of them famously called bloggers "idiots in their pajamas", leading to the establishment of Pajamas Media, a thorn in the side of fake news until this day.

Seriously, this was a big deal and I'm surprised you're not aware of it.