None of the journalists, pundits and politicians who were horribly wrong about COVID-19 (some as late as mid-March) have done any introspection The same series of events could very well unfold identically next year
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Imagine -- your job is to have opinions on important issues (which then inform policy). You have an extensive track record of being wrong every time it mattered. And it doesn't harm your credibility one bit, because one month ago is so far back in the past
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This is exactly what
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Covid has been strange. All of my intellectual heroes like Taleb, J. Howard and now you guys are coming together over sets of disparate issues.
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They also failed to do introspection after 2016 when they constantly aired every inane thing trump said, giving him tons of 'earned media'
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Because your opinion served the advertises and funders the whole time. It’s not “news”, it’s media.
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Journalism more about clicks than accuracy, and thus journalists no longer require skin in the game. Can lie and bullshit all day long with no repurcussions so long as the clicks keep clicking.
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