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Devolved? Have you seen the headlines from a 100 years ago. What golden age of media would you suggest we have devolved from? The media is what they always w

by ipaddr 5y ago

Devolved? Have you seen the headlines from a 100 years ago. What golden age of media would you suggest we have devolved from? The media is what they always were alarmist who selectively report in order to maximize profits while carefully falling in with the most powerful but always trying to appear distanced and at odds with.

newacct583 5y ago
> maximize profits while carefully falling in with the most powerful That's not really consistent with the evidence though. Elite media in this circumstance seems to be treating lambda relatively calmly. It's outfits like the NY Post ("Deadly Lambda variant could be neutralizing vaccines"), Daily Beast ("Tokyo Deliberately Left Deadly New COVID Variant Out of Press Briefings"), etc...