Even there, they were at least accurately reporting what government sources claimed, albeit far too credulously.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/864821983682408448 …
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Replying to @normative
Right. Which is consistent with my next post. The official consensus has failed in a number of ways (bank crisis another huge one).
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Replying to @emptywheel
Often those are perfectly valid. I'm distinguishing from the notion that reporters routinely just *make stuff up* and print it.
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Replying to @normative
CNBC just made stuff up. But the stuff they made up came from an ideology that was universally accepted in certain circles.
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Replying to @emptywheel @normative
You need to at least consider that what is happening is a collapse of an ideology that has been in the works since 2003.
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Replying to @emptywheel @normative
Tho I'd add you should consider how the 1990s RW Noise Machine came to subsume "journalism."
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Replying to @emptywheel
Dude. How long have we known each other? You don't need to come at me all redpill, I promise.
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Replying to @normative
I'm not meaning to. I'm saying after the 1990s there was a normalization of the paid make things up industry on the right.
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Replying to @emptywheel @normative
At a time when real news is cutting staff but Breitbart has an angel investor, is it any surprise more people make things up for salary?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Sure. I was really thinking of traditional newspapers. (I don't watch TV news, so have less sense of how awful it's gotten.)
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Hard to divorce the make things up strand from cable news--and that's true on left and right now.
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