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Interesting article! Also good to see what we have done, and anything done with international cooperation is almost always a good thing. Off topic, but it is g

Interesting article! Also good to see what we have done, and anything done with international cooperation is almost always a good thing. Off topic, but it is good to see The Atlantic back to doing non-political quality journalism! As a company they had gone down a dark partisan rabbit hole of just propagandizing for one political party. I had blocked The Atlantic in Apple News, now I am going to start reading them again.

542354234235 1y ago
If doing quality journalism ends up being negative for one political party, the problem might not be with the journalists.
- mark_l_watson 1y ago
  Given the poor candidates running in the last election, I don’t blame anyone for criticizing either candidate. Still, sources like PBS and The Atlantic that have close to 100% of their employees in one political party simply become less interesting. Anyway, apologies for the political post earlier. On re-reading my original post I see how it is politically charged, something I like to avoid. Hopefully my previous post gets downvoted into oblivion.
- lan321 1y ago
  Meh. Any journalist or corpo that never praises actions of party X and never critises actions of party Y is sketchy. As someone with finite time it's one of my main propaganda detectors. Don't know if they were like that, parent seems to go in that direction.
  - mark_l_watson 1y ago
    Exactly right, and also: except for election seasons I budget only about an hour a week for news and politics, but a little more for geopolitical and geo financial material. I choose a few sources, stick with them for a month or two, then move on. Lately I have been enjoying news from sources in Singapore, and I like the Israeli news outlet Harretz because they seem to cover both sides of issues.
blipvert 1y ago
Wow. In light of an administration that is bent on destroying the soft power that the US has built up over decades, slashing funding for the kind of programs which make tackling these kinds of challenges possible, and with a guy in charge of public health who had a worm burrow into his brain and die this is quite the comment!
- mark_l_watson 1y ago
  +1 I upvoted you, your comment seems like an honest opinion.

542354234235 1y ago

If doing quality journalism ends up being negative for one political party, the problem might not be with the journalists.

mark_l_watson 1y ago
Given the poor candidates running in the last election, I don’t blame anyone for criticizing either candidate. Still, sources like PBS and The Atlantic that have close to 100% of their employees in one political party simply become less interesting. Anyway, apologies for the political post earlier. On re-reading my original post I see how it is politically charged, something I like to avoid. Hopefully my previous post gets downvoted into oblivion.
lan321 1y ago
Meh. Any journalist or corpo that never praises actions of party X and never critises actions of party Y is sketchy. As someone with finite time it's one of my main propaganda detectors. Don't know if they were like that, parent seems to go in that direction.
- mark_l_watson 1y ago
  Exactly right, and also: except for election seasons I budget only about an hour a week for news and politics, but a little more for geopolitical and geo financial material. I choose a few sources, stick with them for a month or two, then move on. Lately I have been enjoying news from sources in Singapore, and I like the Israeli news outlet Harretz because they seem to cover both sides of issues.

blipvert 1y ago

Wow. In light of an administration that is bent on destroying the soft power that the US has built up over decades, slashing funding for the kind of programs which make tackling these kinds of challenges possible, and with a guy in charge of public health who had a worm burrow into his brain and die this is quite the comment!

mark_l_watson 1y ago
+1 I upvoted you, your comment seems like an honest opinion.