The hacks have to make a living not talking seriously about corporate corruption, grotesque inequality, real drivers of and solutions to net negative GHGs, the

The hacks have to make a living not talking seriously about corporate corruption, grotesque inequality, real drivers of and solutions to net negative GHGs, the criminal injustice system, or the classist, celebrity-obsessed, inverted totalitarian apartheid. Meanwhile, the economy is "better than ever" and "everything's fine," if you're rich and self-interested to defend the status quo.