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This is a really excellent article. It also reminds me of Scott Alexander's position on the inverse (self-censoring rather than speaking freely) formulation of this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way?utm_source=publication-search

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Yascha, a very erudite and interesting theory, which you have explained well. However to the simplistic minded sceptic, this dinner partyism also takes place between like minded individuals who are thrust together, in this instance, on account of their shared love of and training as reporters and journalists. What is not even mentioned in this article is why there is an undeniable biased of the MSM reporters and journalists, to be left of centre in their politics. The question that needs addressing and explaining is "why?" All the examples you quote could be construed as those of the ruling classes, instructing their MSM editors to ensure a propaganda narrative was followed by all NEWS and Broadcasting outlets and succeeded because 80% of the editors, reporters and journalists were of the same political persuasion, which was the cause of there being an overwhelming consensus to change course in unison, and to not only condemn but to smear those who disagreed with their utterances, as conspiracy theorists, or to be the far right, or "deniers" (vax-deniers, climate change deniers) of the substance of their proclamations. One struggles with these contradictions to you theory of dinner partyism, solid as it might seem at first reading.

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