Dissenting and getting downvoted, kind of proving the point. My experience living in a county and working in an industry that are both dominated by one particu

Dissenting and getting downvoted, kind of proving the point. My experience living in a county and working in an industry that are both dominated by one particular way of thinking given to them by authority figures (CDC, New York Times, etc.) is that if you step outside that way of thinking and pose fairly innocuous questions that challenge it, two things happen: you lose all credibility, and you get called pretty bad things (racist, conspiracist, etc). That alone is pretty detrimental to pushing the envelope with hard conversations. I have no doubt (and hear) that what I personally experience is also happening across the media and entertainment industry resulting in groupthink even inside the rooms that are supposed to be doing journalism and asking the hard questions that criticize and question authority. As I type these words, it's almost as if the root of this is whether you trust those in "authoritative" roles, or not. And fear for ones health turns us against each other if we feel like those authoritative figures are either helping, or hurting. Anyways. If you think what Bari does is whine, that's too bad. Of the growing band of "counter-narrative" folks (Glenn Greenwald, Bari, Matt Taibi, Russell Brand, etc.) she's rock solid in her reporting and I oftentimes feel like she's doing what journalism should be doing. Spend a bit more time actually reading (or listening) to her. She covers a gambit of topics.