As Marty Feldman would say, "on the nosey!" As the far left has marched through American institutions, it has created a self-fulfilling disaster: bad public schools feed brainless teenagers to colleges, who teach them nothing but approved ideology and toddler-level foot-stomping in service of same. These mindless drones go to "journalism" schools, which do nothing but reinforce the approved ideology, while teaching them how to translate the foot-stomping into words and pictures that can be used by media companies.
Now that they have credentials that allow them to say, "I'm a journalism," they expect the public to lap up any swill they belch forth, no matter how inaccurate or even idiotic ("woman in a dress," anyone?), which the public no longer has any reason to do. Then the corporate types wonder why no one listens to them any more, and insists it must be the public's fault, what with their being racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic MAGA swine, at which point the mindless drones working for them are sent forth to excoriate the masses for not appreciating their brilliance. As the mindless drones age out and get too expensive, rinse and repeat.
I, for one, have no intention of being lectured by some miseducated and misinformed Dunning Kruger poster child about economics, foreign policy, sexuality/gender, immigration, or any other subject. And as Becket so eloquently points out, there are tens if not hundreds of millions of others just like me who have only one message for the mindless drones: Get bent.
Mr. T B A... I don't have a lot of facts about this subject but the way I feel is that you are probably a communist racist for accusing the Chinese of using the Wu Han lab and the Wu Tang Clan to use Covid 19 for the brainwashing of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore thus forcing them to kill baby polar bears and deport their parents from Maryland.. I can't believe you can be so narrow minded and cruel...
Really sharp breakdown of something that doesn't get enough systemic analysis. The veterans-to-muppets pipeline is underrated as a causal driver, honestly more structurally significant than raw partisanship. What I find fascinating is that the credibility collapse is self-reinforcing: audiences flee to Substack and podcasts, ad revnue craters, budgets cut further, more inexperienced hires. Lived it watching a few local newsrooms I knew well go from genuinely rigorous to basically unrecognizabl in about five years.
Excellent article! I can’t recall seeing this point made so clearly before. But now that you mention it, the pattern is obvious. We routinely see twenty-somethings — often minorities — delivering confident but thin, uninformed “analysis” on talk show panels, cycling through all the partisan talking points they can remember to sound politically astute. Volume substitutes for depth and a disdainful demeanor passes for conviction.
But no amount of bluster can compensate for a genuine understanding of political history. That kind of perspective comes only from having lived through it and watching it unfold.
As Marty Feldman would say, "on the nosey!" As the far left has marched through American institutions, it has created a self-fulfilling disaster: bad public schools feed brainless teenagers to colleges, who teach them nothing but approved ideology and toddler-level foot-stomping in service of same. These mindless drones go to "journalism" schools, which do nothing but reinforce the approved ideology, while teaching them how to translate the foot-stomping into words and pictures that can be used by media companies.
Now that they have credentials that allow them to say, "I'm a journalism," they expect the public to lap up any swill they belch forth, no matter how inaccurate or even idiotic ("woman in a dress," anyone?), which the public no longer has any reason to do. Then the corporate types wonder why no one listens to them any more, and insists it must be the public's fault, what with their being racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic MAGA swine, at which point the mindless drones working for them are sent forth to excoriate the masses for not appreciating their brilliance. As the mindless drones age out and get too expensive, rinse and repeat.
I, for one, have no intention of being lectured by some miseducated and misinformed Dunning Kruger poster child about economics, foreign policy, sexuality/gender, immigration, or any other subject. And as Becket so eloquently points out, there are tens if not hundreds of millions of others just like me who have only one message for the mindless drones: Get bent.
Mr. T B A... I don't have a lot of facts about this subject but the way I feel is that you are probably a communist racist for accusing the Chinese of using the Wu Han lab and the Wu Tang Clan to use Covid 19 for the brainwashing of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore thus forcing them to kill baby polar bears and deport their parents from Maryland.. I can't believe you can be so narrow minded and cruel...
Really sharp breakdown of something that doesn't get enough systemic analysis. The veterans-to-muppets pipeline is underrated as a causal driver, honestly more structurally significant than raw partisanship. What I find fascinating is that the credibility collapse is self-reinforcing: audiences flee to Substack and podcasts, ad revnue craters, budgets cut further, more inexperienced hires. Lived it watching a few local newsrooms I knew well go from genuinely rigorous to basically unrecognizabl in about five years.
Excellent article! I can’t recall seeing this point made so clearly before. But now that you mention it, the pattern is obvious. We routinely see twenty-somethings — often minorities — delivering confident but thin, uninformed “analysis” on talk show panels, cycling through all the partisan talking points they can remember to sound politically astute. Volume substitutes for depth and a disdainful demeanor passes for conviction.
But no amount of bluster can compensate for a genuine understanding of political history. That kind of perspective comes only from having lived through it and watching it unfold.