Why does the narrator of "epic 2015" describe the year 2015 as the "worst of times"?

Because we will not have news organizations.

In the film "Epic 2015," the authors argue that the year 2015 is the best of times, as well as the worst of times (this is a reference to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities). The best is the fact that people nowadays can access information in ways that we could have never imagined in the past, thanks to the World Wide Web. However, the worst is the impact that this has had on news organizations, which the authors believed have lost their popularity and importance and will disappear soon. They believe this to be tragic for the well-being of society.

they lost control of territory in the middle east, but preserved turkey's political independence.