After social constructivism permeated the humanities deeply enough to turn most journalists into postmodernists, they turned their focus from understanding social reality to constructing it. Journalism is no longer: X happened, but: here is how you should relate to X
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Replying to @Plinz @CHSommers
To be more precise: "X may or may not have happened, but since we can't prove it DIDN'T happen, therefore we can conclude it DID happen.. if its having happened helps our narrative.. and NOW we will tell you what you should do next because of it"
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Replying to @Ploodie1 @CHSommers
"Putin used an army of Twitter bots to destroy the sincere joy of Star Wars fans about the contemporary morality update of the franchise"—"ok, not really, but it doesn't change what we think about Putin, or Star Wars, because that's totally what he would do if he'd thought of it"
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https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-russian-bots-derailed-last-jedi/ … (see also large slew of posts in everything from polygon to forbes that picked it up. WTF fellow liberals. The original story says no such thing: https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-haters-were-not-russian-trolls/ …
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Replying to @Plinz @CHSommers
Imagine putting that much time and effort into analyzing reactions to... a space movie.
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Why? The space movie was a 317 million dollar investment that will pay off ~750M USD less than its predecessor, and the question is whether that was because the political propaganda penalty was too high, or because $evilpeople
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