Well, sometimes you really do want to protect people from themselves.
I actually find the call for the good old days and the complaint about the decline of morals repugnant; I don't feel old enough for that yet. But sometimes it does seem that with production pressure, time pressure and the click-attention economy, an important virtue falls by the wayside: decency. And that applies to both the media and politics. Here is a current example.*
The story goes like this: A new National Council laos rcs data member does something that is legally hers and has been approved by all parties. She writes an email with her expense invoice for attending a conference. and sent the email to everyone instead of just to the parliamentary services. Whereupon someone - presumably a National Council member - forwarded this email to the online portal nau.ch. The editors made a story out of it - even though the National Council member had done nothing wrong. However, the story was mainly about National Council members' expenses in general. The email from the National Council member in question is also mentioned - but not by name.