Journalists love reporting on flat Earthers even though their beliefs have no impact on anything in the real world: https://news.google.com/search?q=%22flat%20

Journalists love reporting on flat Earthers even though their beliefs have no impact on anything in the real world: https://news.google.com/search?q=%22flat%20earth%22&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://news.google.com/search?q=%22flat%20earth%22&hl=en-US... Realistically, journalists like to report on fringe or weird beliefs so they can laugh at the people holding them, and dislike reporting on serious disagreement with things they want to be true. Agree that almost nobody is reading the papers, outside of random tweeters and bloggers. Journalists might as well start, though. Reading obscure documents is a part of the job, classically at least.