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Potter's avatar

Thank you. The news business has always been scoop-seeking. "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!!" But it's particularly harmful and irresponsible when there is the ill-intentioned means at the ready to spread outright lies, dis and misinformation like never before. Ultimately this is counter-productive especially if a venue (including the "quality" news business)cares about and is looking for reader trust.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes” apt and true here even though Mark Twain did not say it.

By the time the malevolent get their "catch", it's almost if not too late to correct; at best an uphill battle. And history books are written from this.

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Sandy Green's avatar

It seems to me that editors, headline writers and journalists received new, unintended job training on how to cover the 🤡 admin and its 100+ lies every day.

To survive, inflammatory “gotcha” stories became the norm—they needed to match 🤡’s rhetoric since that’s what consumers craved, thereby increasing the size, success and profitability of newsrooms.

Of course, it’s clear the msm also contributed to 🤡 getting the nomination and then the election, and that’s a self-created problem few members of the media will ever admit.

Now newsrooms don’t know how to reverse the inflammatory headlines and stories and return to normalcy. Some that may have tried have laid off new hires, shut down completely or become scooped up by bigger media companies.

Both MSM and consumers have to be retrained, but it may be an impossible task.

Keep trying, Aaron.

Your reporting is fair and accurate, often tinged with your trademark humor. That style of reporting can only be successful if it is written by someone who is acutely self aware—and that is you.

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