Why would we expect journalists to write fair articles? They’re in the infotainment business and need to sell clicks. Reporting that working at a warehouse is

Why would we expect journalists to write fair articles? They’re in the infotainment business and need to sell clicks. Reporting that working at a warehouse is “hard work but mostly okay,” is not going to advance that reporters career or help the publication make money. But finding a shocking and at least mostly true story, and ignoring whether or not it’s a 1% outlier, just might. We shouldn’t be surprised by this. What we ought to do is ignore it. I think the biggest problem is that most people want to be genuinely well-informed, won’t accept that this isn’t actually possible, and thus accept a lot of commercial infotainment because it provokes strong feelings, makes for good shared outrage dinner chats with “in the know” friends, and helps you imagine that you are well informed.