The silver lining is that, freed of the reliance on established media sources, more and more people are able to aggregate quality information and discuss methods of minimizing their own biases.
That’s not really much of a silver lining. Aggregating information, researching, fact-checking, comparing multiple sources, consulting with subject matter experts–that’s a full-time job. Specifically, it’s the full-time job of someone who works in the media (whether or not they actually do that job is beside the point for the moment). While the “old dead tree media” may very well get replaced by the “new Internet media”, the whole idea of media organizations of all stripes disappearing entirely and getting replaced by a network of crowdsourced volunteers is frankly appalling to me. It’s this very thing that would allow, say, a foreign intelligence service to much more easily slip propaganda into the news stream of another nation’s population. Sure, I get that the old corporate monolith system also allows rich corporations to ensure that all media organizations have different degrees of the same conservative bias, and so it’s not like the old media networks like CNN and whatnot don’t suffer from this. But at least with that system you can usually pretty easily identify who’s peeing in the pool.