I couldn't agree more that the response to our emergency has been weak. I'm not even referring to the official response. People seem to be exhausted....Possibly by the pandemic. There will be awakenings. There will be voices but we will have to wait for them to emerge. Personally, I hate having to wait.
I agree, the passivity has been almost more depressing than the frantic criminal activity in DC. It appears there may be some coordinated protests on Feb 5--keep an eye out--
The Free Press is no longer free to report the facts free from financial and corporate influence: reporting now must take company policy into consideration as the primary driver not informing the public.
Woodward and Bernstein are both working today in many places around the world; the fact that their work is being lost in the noise of today’s media conglomerates doesn’t permit the facts to reach the public as easily and those facts must now compete for attention with alternate facts and lies or even pronouncements of facts by those in authority (see Trump blaming DEI for the plane crash).
Today’s coverage of any event is littered with too much editorializing and too little facts: just look here on Substack, at the most popular writers, who focus more on the messenger and less on the message.
It takes time and effort and sometimes danger to get the facts nailed down, as Woodward and Bernstein showed us. The journalists I listed are giving us facts as well as opinions. I prefer them to the passive normalizing that's going on at the NYT.
Thank you for sharing your own story of how you became a journalist.
I subscribe to all but the NYT and am deeply appreciative of each one's absolute dedication. I also learn from Brian Tyler Cohen and the contributions of those he interviews.
I couldn't agree more that the response to our emergency has been weak. I'm not even referring to the official response. People seem to be exhausted....Possibly by the pandemic. There will be awakenings. There will be voices but we will have to wait for them to emerge. Personally, I hate having to wait.
I agree, the passivity has been almost more depressing than the frantic criminal activity in DC. It appears there may be some coordinated protests on Feb 5--keep an eye out--
The Free Press is no longer free to report the facts free from financial and corporate influence: reporting now must take company policy into consideration as the primary driver not informing the public.
Woodward and Bernstein are both working today in many places around the world; the fact that their work is being lost in the noise of today’s media conglomerates doesn’t permit the facts to reach the public as easily and those facts must now compete for attention with alternate facts and lies or even pronouncements of facts by those in authority (see Trump blaming DEI for the plane crash).
Today’s coverage of any event is littered with too much editorializing and too little facts: just look here on Substack, at the most popular writers, who focus more on the messenger and less on the message.
It takes time and effort and sometimes danger to get the facts nailed down, as Woodward and Bernstein showed us. The journalists I listed are giving us facts as well as opinions. I prefer them to the passive normalizing that's going on at the NYT.
I have no interest in the NYT: any paper that has been that politicized in it's reporting has lost my interest.
Thank you for sharing your own story of how you became a journalist.
I subscribe to all but the NYT and am deeply appreciative of each one's absolute dedication. I also learn from Brian Tyler Cohen and the contributions of those he interviews.