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Every so often, from the likes of Pro Publica, there's a great article about issues with the US healthcare system and its ability to respond to crises or provide emergency services. Every day on twitter, people are hot boxing some take about whether Miss Piggy is a manspreader
The disconnect is alarming, but since most low-level writers produce content that requires zero reporting + loads of opinion, the fights that happen during "peacetime" are nuanced, fierce, and ultimately meaningless. "We have to fire the Vox guy...he liked an alt right tweet"
My main work on here, the work I do over and over, is to keep saying this. Look at how this extremely online work, which I produced some of between 2016-2017, served to fill dead time here in this space. Others say this occasionally, but I say it repeatedly.
The sad thing is, the producers of this content are forced to produce it disingenuously, because they need the money for economic survival, or they are so shaped by reading nothing but work in this strange ecosystem that their minds become geared to responding to takes
And the take world is terrifying, because most takes amount to personalized micro-concerns fluffed up with universalized language by writers and editors looking to push each take as the ur-take. It's fascinating but very distracting from material problems
This is a structural problem. That's why I never call out individual writers. But it's a problem that ties directly into larger issues, like the latest national state of emergency, because our media is conditioned to push these individualized take responses one after the other
So you're more of a "gimme the facts guy" huh?
I'm a fact skeptic too, especially if the facts are cherry picked by "them." But I prefer substance over this piffle and pablum, however we characterize it
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