That "internet" all that "internet" journalists talk about was never alive in the first place.

There exists at least two entities with same name. Internet as an TCP/IP network and "internet" as a bunch of well-known corporations services created on top of that TCP/IP network. The latter was never alive. This thing was created as an urgent replacement of dying traditional MSM propaganda machine to prevent normies attention shift from centralized cable/press/radio/TV machine to something distributed and barely controlled. One of the things MSM was seriously disturbed by is a way new TCP/IP media developed in area of author-user interaction. With Internet users get a way to establish instant conversation with author and argue with him publicly. If that feature would have been allowed to develop further, MSM would not survive, because MSM's main principle was inability of consumers to publicly question MSM narratives and points. So they roll out "internet" for sheeple, where they keep their ability to never answer any questions.

If you separate that two internets, then all that whining about "internet death" will become pretty clear and irrelevant. Next logical step is to stop using their "internet", that was dead from the very beginning, but it is completely another story.