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When people stop saying tropes like big tech are “private companies” and “actions have consequences” every time someone from the wrong political ideology gets d
by bedhead 6y ago
When people stop saying tropes like big tech are “private companies” and “actions have consequences” every time someone from the wrong political ideology gets deplatformed I’ll take this bitching and moaning slightly more seriously. This says nothing about the comically dysfunctional state of our insanely biased media, of which Kara herself and her brazenly political agenda is a symptom of.
- hnra 6y agoIsn't that the point of separating a paper into editorial and opinion? The opinion section should be a place where journalists (or other figures) should be able to voice their concerns on what they see as important. Kara has been pretty vocal during the last few years on her opinion of social media allowing Trump to spread disinformation and try to incite violence. It took inciting an attempted coup and a couple of people dying before they did the right thing. Her opinion seems to be that they shouldn't have let it get that far, seeing as the writing has been on the wall for a long time.
- bedhead 6y agoI'd strongly argue that having an editorial staff has proven to be a catastrophic error for newspapers since it poisons the culture of the newsroom, assigns a political brand to the company (which creates a flywheel where only people of the same ideology are attracted to and eventually accepted at the company whether it's Fox News or NYT), and blurs the lines between opinion pieces and reporting. Today at least, there is no justification for newspapers to have editorial staff at all. Having every media organization drop their editorial department would be an excellent first step in repairing our dysfunctional media.