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Ray Prisament's avatar

Covid was the last straw. I genuinely don't understand how a generation of journalists decided their role was to parrot and amplify the government line - even to point of participating in and celebrating de-facto censorship of dissenting positions on lockdowns, masks, and mRNA mandates. It was (and still is) incredible to behold. I always thought of journalists as curious, skeptical, critical thinkers regardless of political persuasion... I thought uncritically printing the headline of a Pfizer press release without asking any follow up questions was the kind of low-skill work they *didn't* want to do. I guess I was wrong but I still don't understand how.

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Richard Weinberg's avatar

From my perspective as an elderly moderate Democrat, I completely agree with your second point. I'm astonished by the magnitude of apparent blindness regarding the partisan tone (and often also content) of the left-of-center press.

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