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Meh. This is the narrative of Marx and Foucault, and one I think is demonstrably false. For multiple counter-examples, see pretty much everything on https://w

• motohagiography 6y ago
  Every single one of those headlines asserts a conflict, and the only difference is these MSN ones appeal to sentiment instead of outrage. Arguably, newspapers as a concern are a post-Marx phenomenon, and it's what people get taught in j-school, and what editors accept. Students of both are peddlers of pernicious nonsense, but their students also produced some entertaining and powerful things, notably recycled recipes for accelerating and reverting democracies into their inevitable tyrannies. Anyway, the NYTimes doesn't register as meaningful to me, and if they were looking for a reason why people are leaving them and other mainstream outlets behind, it's becuase their conflicts are contrived.