I really hope so. Steem could at the very least temper the polarization effects from the ad-monetization schemes that the other (fiat) platforms use now.

I wonder if anyone has considered that opportunity seriously yet. It's a brilliant point. I'm sure communities could sprout around alternative models of journalism. And again the bar doesn't have to be set so high... could be as modest as doing deeper dives into whatever the subject matter is, or deeper than what's being done now which isn't saying much.

Instead of writing to provoke or produce clickbait the journalist could write to understand and present nuance. But now I'm just hearing myself saying "we should bring back those good old days when journalism was objective!" ( even though I wasn't around for those good old days and it's probably BS anyways haha)

But more than improving on the current model I could imagine new subject matter entirely being explored, and then let the Steemit market decide what sticks.