Reading or writing about things in depth (and thus slowly) used to be a virtue. Society used to look down on unsubstantiated gossip, and up on the people that read long texts. That changed when the stock markets became fast, by the 70's and 80's. Quick access to gossip started to mean money, and gossip reading or writing became virtuous.

I have no idea what to fix, but any solution probably involves restoring that one value to its previous state.