Maybe 30% will be in a mood for their own revenge, triggering a vendetta cycle. They’ll fail. The modern world is simply not set up to sustain indefinite vendetta cycles. It’s just not worth it and too many people have better things to do with their lives.
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I lack a certain sense of moral self-importance I think all journalists who consider themselves “good” seem to share. Something that infuses the pompous phrase “the public has a right to know.” A tendency towards public-interest inquisitorial self appointment.pic.twitter.com/ZNIuspKNDk
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I think “the public” is an ass, like the law, that I’m a part of it, and that it has no more right to anything than elites. The only reason the public doesn’t do self-dealing is that it lacks the opportunity and cunning. You get no halo from representing it.
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Self-appointing yourself to represent its interests doesn’t lend you any sort of halo. You’re basically no better than Trump spokespersons representing Trump’s right to not be held accountable. Or a neoliberal corporate shill like me representing corporations right to profit
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Another thing I wonder is: when everything across the board has been going to hell, why has news media been going there double quick? Is it because Trump has been attacking and undermining them with extra vigor as the Red Resentment Revenge Emissary in Chief? No, that’s too easy
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I think it’s because they’ve been the only institution truly above judgment and accountability so far. To the point it took a populist near-coup to make them even notice there were issues beyond the internet eating their lavish 3-martini lunch.
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While most of my own personal interactions with journalists have been positive, a few times yeah... the sense of being judged by a priest themselves above judgment. And unaware of their own distinct lack of saintliness.
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He’s been as much part of the problem as anyone. Media people pointing fingers at each other and moving around (old or new doesn’t matter: Vox=Infowars=Fox=NYT) is just shit stirring itself.
It’s not as academic as the comparison upthread to politicians. I have no interest in being a politician. But I’m clearly adjacent to news media. The main difference being unwillingness to do fieldwork.