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So what’s your proposal for funding the work that goes into journalism? Doing it commercially is apparently problematic, but so is the government running the s

So what’s your proposal for funding the work that goes into journalism? Doing it commercially is apparently problematic, but so is the government running the show, and nonprofits and volunteers doing it also have problems. Guess it’s all problematic, we should just not have any journalism

relesson 3y ago
Aside: “Problematic” is such a terrible word, uniformly intended to cast aspersions. It’s reality: everything has positive and negative qualities in various proportions. Instead of implying that something is “bad” by virtue of being “problematic”, why not simply state what the specific problem is? Because then you can’t shit talk the entire affair, I suspect. Perhaps it was initially intended to be useful in this way, but it has been co-opted to non-specifically disparage.