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You are correct - I have no problem paying a reasonable fee for good journalism to be informed. The problem is that poor journalism influences the masses. And
by dotancohen 3y ago
You are correct - I have no problem paying a reasonable fee for good journalism to be informed.
The problem is that poor journalism influences the masses. And in a democracy, the masses' opinion is assigned a higher decision-making weight than is the opinion of the informed minority.
- jacquesm 3y agoYes, that is a massive problem. But I don't blame the journalists per se: the masses are part and parcel of that and they collectively seem to prefer to be lied to over the unvarnished truth, which as often as not is very uncomfortable. People want simplicity and predictability, they don't want to have to exercise their grey matter too much, they don't want to be inconvenienced and they - and this one really gets me - would prefer not to know. That makes it easier to ignore things and to focus on the little joys in life instead of on the overarching much larger troubles.
- dotancohen 3y agoThat sounds like quite the argument against democracy.