For David Schmader the state of U.S. media is summed up by what happened after New York magazine published a cover story about Bill Cosby’s accusers.

Schmader, who recently left The Stranger after 16 years, told KUOW’s Jeannie Yandel that he had been chafing under the changes wrought by the Internet over the past decade. And then came that story and cover.

“This amazing thing, deep dive that they did,” he said. “And then you got to see every other major news organization do '10 Things I Learned From The New York Thing,' that you could read and totally skip over this amazing wealth of work and commitment in the original.”

He lamented “the acceptance that we’re all preying on these same stories and exporting the most delicious treat from it. It sounds creepy, and it is.”

Schmader, who wrote the Seattle alt-weekly's "Last Days" column for 15 years, now is creative director of the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas, a nonprofit creative writing center for kids.