Shocking, surely. The necessary ingredient to make something news is the story of a conflict between an audiences expectations and events as they occurred. What

Shocking, surely. The necessary ingredient to make something news is the story of a conflict between an audiences expectations and events as they occurred. What makes mainstream news so useless is even if the events actually did (decreasingly) occur, the necessary conflict is so entirely manufactured by an underlying ideology as to render the resulting news product fake. It's the veneer of events over a core of reconstituted criticisms. The conflict is manufactured by a false conflict between supposed oppressors and the oppressed that is the artifact of a dim ideology, which is simplistic and meaningless enough that you can apply to anything. Ideology is what people iterate and riff on to produce satisfying theorems when they are too dumb to be funny, and now we hire them to produce "news." The only real sources of truth are comedy and fiction, and if you don't read those, it may be worth seriously examining why.