Strange that the author left out the most significant and most obvious reason . . . one described in only two words:  click bait. Upon further reflection, maybe that omission is not so strange after all. 

Friday late afternoon always a good time for more breaking Russian collusion news......or for someone else to jump ship from Trump's failed administration......although there's not too many people left is there? Well we'll probably get more fake news from Trump about Hillary and the Uranium fake story from 7 years ago......pretending that Hillary herself actually carried bags of uranium into Russia and got suitcases of hundred dollar bills back....... To actually shed the light of truth on the story, Hillary wasn't in charge of the uranium, the State Department had to sign off on the sale, which was approved by 9 different departments....she didn't get 150 million dollars for her foundation, a guy from the company had given her about a million dollar donation at a different time.....to her foundation, not to her.......just other people around the world donate to charitable causes( except for Trump of course who never gives any money to charity at all), and the uranium was owned, like most American uranium, by a Canadian company, not an US company, and by law the uranium cannot leave the US.....so no Hillary didn't sell uranium to Russia for them to make bombs to blow us up and she didn't get a bunch of money and no the Russians can't even take the stuff out of the US......

Speaking of fake news- notice how MW ditched the story about the IRS targeting the Tea Party groups?  Where did that one go?

Hannity with his Seth Rich and now Uranium One story lines are a good examples. Right wing Web sites drive the misinformation and Hannity picks it up and regurgitates it back to the right wing. They reinforce each other misinformation.

The main reason there is more fake news is that it works, it makes people click and clicks = money.  The other main reason is that we have a dumbed down population. It's easier to control people when they're not smart, as evidenced by the fact that we elected a criminal idiot to be our leader.

99% of the media is leftist so why is anyone surprised.  They lost and cannot accept it and are trying to do anything to discredit Trump.  The tables are now turned with all this Russian nonsense and it is finding its way back to where it stemmed.  Clinton and Obama trying to covering their own misdeeds.  Where are any of these stories on MW or in other media.  Buried, but not for long.   Journalism is no more and we only read bias opinion pieces.