stephanie

maybe i am dumb & naive but it bothers me that most criticisms of "the media class" here show no interest in the question of how do we actually build good lasting accountable media institutions relevant to a wide audience and basically end up at "at least i have stuff for Me"

like it's mostly valid i too am tired of hearing a bunch of new york writers talk among themselves and class & accessibility critiques are absolutely accurate but the predominant attitude on here across a wide variety of political stances is tear it all down with no replacement

saw a thread from some tech guy today that basically went "i love that journalists are increasingly irrelevant, now i can just have my pr team shape the narrative" and it was like damn u really said that out loud. but similar sentiment in lots of places

It feels like many think the replacement is......here?

social media moves too fast and has few accountability mechanisms beyond mobbing ppl, there's immense skill & value in finding news & reporting it well & editing & factchecking. i think it's true a lot of editors these days suck but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have editors