Interesting and well-intended, but I wish people were more straightforward about the dynamics of journalism in this country. Besides all of the technological disruption — which is obviously significant — there has been a 30-plus-year concerted, well-funded and profitable assault on American journalism from the right-wing media. One big reason people feel so divided and don't know "who to trust" is that a big chunk of the population willingly checked out of consuming actual journalism as soon as an alternative big media came along and promised to cater to their every prejudice and negative impulse without ever challenging anything about their worldview. I don't know the answer to that, but it's not just better or more engaged work by actual journalists.
This is a true and fair point JFM. This is a lot of whom I'm second referencing as "bad actors", and I think they have been able to take advantage of technological changes (the way other authoritarians took advantage of, say, radio when it was first coming around). I didn't mean to obscure who they were in the convo, I guess I almost took it as a given but shouldn't have.
Interesting and well-intended, but I wish people were more straightforward about the dynamics of journalism in this country. Besides all of the technological disruption — which is obviously significant — there has been a 30-plus-year concerted, well-funded and profitable assault on American journalism from the right-wing media. One big reason people feel so divided and don't know "who to trust" is that a big chunk of the population willingly checked out of consuming actual journalism as soon as an alternative big media came along and promised to cater to their every prejudice and negative impulse without ever challenging anything about their worldview. I don't know the answer to that, but it's not just better or more engaged work by actual journalists.
This is a true and fair point JFM. This is a lot of whom I'm second referencing as "bad actors", and I think they have been able to take advantage of technological changes (the way other authoritarians took advantage of, say, radio when it was first coming around). I didn't mean to obscure who they were in the convo, I guess I almost took it as a given but shouldn't have.