You can’t understand the journalism problem until you face that it has always been propaganda and PR. We just didn’t know how bad it was until we had alternativ

You can’t understand the journalism problem until you face that it has always been propaganda and PR. We just didn’t know how bad it was until we had alternative sources. Maybe there was a little more effort, beyond writing up a tweet or Reddit conversation. But at its core Journalism is narrative crafting (or narrative repeating). And fueled by upper class peer recognition.