Just hit me that explainer journalism is the one genre of modern pre-Weirding media that survived the Great Weirding completely intact. Didn’t miss a beat.
It got big explaining the subprime crisis and has taken everything since 2007 in its stride.
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Vox-style in particular. Later Bloomberg and now half of substack’s top shelf stuff. It’s never surprised by anything and has 20-20 hindsight reassurance for everything.
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The View from Knowhere 😂
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I like the better stuff like Matt Levine but the median explainer newsletter or byline is kinda awful
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The worst stuff is of course particularly bad faith and disingenuous but even the best stuff by the hardworking good faith types seems to have an epistemological weakness running through it I can’t quite put my finger on
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Gonna sleep on this and dream mean critiques
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Yep. My standard way of thinking through questions is to literally pose myself the question and go to sleep. 😴

