Would you expect any different? Those who self-select into a language police force come from mostly overlapping classes of people working in politics, journalis

Would you expect any different? Those who self-select into a language police force come from mostly overlapping classes of people working in politics, journalism and dictionary editing (but I repeat myself). Not everyone has time to worry about that sort of thing, and of those who do, not everyone wants to. So naturally the people who commit the most time to policing and redefining the language appear to have an outsize effect on (your perception of) the language. They’ve literally made it their career. That doesn’t mean we have to listen to them. It is not rational to disambiguate truth from fiction based on words you read on the internet. It’s especially irrational to trust the words more when they’re on website served from a domain name of a company that paid an employee to write them according to some quarterly editorial calendar and Trello board. If you’re altering your behavior in response to changes in a reality you interpret based on the words of a 2015 Columbia journalism major, then you have bigger problems than whether your most-frequented news sites tell you we’re in a recession.