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Maybe this is part of the picture, but it is far from the whole picture. You are just completely ignoring the attacks on the trustworthiness of institutions th
by slg 4y ago
Maybe this is part of the picture, but it is far from the whole picture. You are just completely ignoring the attacks on the trustworthiness of institutions that have come from outside forces. For example, was it the people controlling the National Weather Service that made it a political instrument by covering climate change? Or was it politicians and other powerful people who made the factual reporting of a changing climate a political issue?
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> was it the people controlling the National Weather Service that made it a political instrument by covering climate change? This USA Today comic explains it well: https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13 https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13. For better or worse, climate change is used as tool for advancing political agendas with a certain vision for the future.
- code_biologist 4y agoAn interesting current example of political interests at stake far beyond the on-face discussion of sustainability is the Dutch farmer protests. Discussed a few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989112
- rayiner 4y ago> You are just completely ignoring the attacks on the trustworthiness of institutions that have come from outside forces. Conservatives have been complaining about “liberal media” since forever. But the divergence in media trust between Democrats one hand and Independents/Republicans on the other grew dramatically in the Bush era, and again during the Trump era: https://www.allsides.com/news/2020-12-31-0913/trump-era-drives-largest-ever-party-divide-media-trust https://www.allsides.com/news/2020-12-31-0913/trump-era-driv... In the 1980s I assume most NYC news anchors hated Reagan, but they at least tried to hide their contempt.