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Let's not throw baby out with bathwater. This kind of thinking has been so harmful for social cohesion, and we need a cohesive society if we're going to have a
by elmomle 5y ago
Let's not throw baby out with bathwater. This kind of thinking has been so harmful for social cohesion, and we need a cohesive society if we're going to have a prayer of handling the worst problems we've ever faced as a species in a way that future generations will be remotely proud of.
- bawolff 5y agoWe have no hope of facing those problems if our social cohesion is so fragile that it can't even handle calling an article out as clickbait.
- tw04 5y agoThere's a very big difference between calling something clickbait and saying "everything from the media is a lie".
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoYes, because yellow journalism making a comeback means that somehow the readers fault for distrusting the journalists... Classic GN shilling
- IAmGraydon 5y agoYes, my comment was a bit hyperbolic. However, if we're going to have a prayer of handling the worst problems we've ever faced as a species in a way that future generations will be remotely proud of, we need a media that doesn’t profit from the exact opposite occurrence.
- 8bitsrule 5y agoReminds me of an ad in the Sunday, Dec. 27 1969 New York Times that read: "War is over - if you want it."