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A counter to this would be to create something specifically aimed at disrupting it. A new kind of media that is intent on being action-based. Call it a "political journal" instead of "newspaper" and have its articles all end with suggested political actions that people can take.
Print this quote in an "about" section of the publication along with an explanation for the "political journal" label as opposed to just being a newspaper. Build an audience of people that want to break away from news consumption as commodity.
If you frame it right I guarantee that you can drag some of these people away from it, even the particularly snooty ones, specifically because they get to be snooty about news consumption itself so it offers an outlet to be even snootier.
It doesn't even stop the use of news as cultural commodity either. So it takes nothing away from them, it just augments it with potential action while also providing a way to be even snootier.
Maybe it's out of style now but opinion pieces used to end with a direct appeal to some politician, or else the grave consequences mentioned above will occur. It gave the veneer that you were reading a letter directed to the president or some CEO.
I think that achieved the effect of being snooty while accomplishing nothing.