I think geniunely we wouldn't be in as much of a political mess as we are if it weren't for the fact that newspaper reporters seem to be record levels of dumb and incurious. it feels like a major factor
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I think geniunely we wouldn't be in as much of a political mess as we are if it weren't for the fact that newspaper reporters seem to be record levels of dumb and incurious. it feels like a major factor
Also worthy to note, and i think even more importantly: the capital class has been putting the squeeze on journalism for decades, buying and consolidating newspapers and turning formerly respectable outlets into places to post generated and outsourced garbage and listicles and laying off actual reporters!
same here in the UK, except its more in the vein of "nepotism hires" and the government and the press all going to the same universities