https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship
Great writeup on how fraudulent modern journalism has become.
tl;dr: there's not enough money to pay for real reporting, so we get fabricated SJW grievances and cancel culture. It's cheaper to falsely claim someone used the word "retard" to get them cancelled than take on the NSA (actual example in the article!).
IMO simplest way to fix this is via defamation laws. But that won't fix the funding problem: either way there's going to be a lot less mainstream journalism.
@pete I don't think that's it though. NYT has tons of money (it's backed by Carlos Slim FFS), but hires journalists based on diversity or connections, so it's staffed with unqualified stupid people. The 1619 project was very well-funded, but no amount of money can squeeze good content out of idiots.
