At some point, what you should realise first is what kind of effect the saturation of dogshit-tier journalism is having on the country.
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For the better part of two decades, people in Brianna's particular flavor of limousine liberalism have been engaged in a heel-digging war against the fall of print media, all while happily contributing to the very thing that's killing it.
Look, is the loss of traditional sourcing and rigorous fact checking a bad thing? Fuck yes, of course it is. That is the fucking foundation on which we've built political discourse in this country, which kind of explains why it's gotten progressively worse.
But we did this. The very things Brianna holds dear is the reason this shit is dying. It's because people are more interested in thinkpieces and hot takes than they are in data. It's because we value something agreeing with us over something that tells us a difficult truth. We like succinct, punchy, fluffy little ideas with a lot of bold stances and exciting words.
And the internet has that shit in fucking spades, at an eighth of the cost and with a sixteenth of the staff. Simple economics sorta took over from there.
The New York Times isn't making staff cuts because it doesn't value fact checking. It's making staff cuts because it's fucking hemorrhaging money, and they're trying to slow the bleeding. They literally do not have a choice. Shitty pseudojournalism rags like Buzzfeed, (formerly) Gawker, Mary Sue, and Breitbart are fucking slaughtering them, and that's because they can give the people what they want with a staff of ten and don't give a fuck about sources or fact checks. They just need to say that (literally anything you can think of) is racist, or in the case of Breitbart, that secret moon Jews are coming in government funded rape wagons to make your children gay.
And that doesn't require a staff of people who organize your evidence.
Print media is bleeding to death because people today get their news from listening to hackneyed thinkpiece garbage and spicy takes on twitter,
Brianna.