LA Times and WaPo are trying to be less biased. They lost a lot of subscriptions for their already low subscriptions, but maybe people might start reading them again if they do become a journalistic operation. Don't forget the online clicks.
They're completely aware, they're doing their normal thing of ignoring how much we hate them and certainly do NOT trust a word they say. They are absolutely irrelevant.
I think if they're unware of it, the people they answer to who pull their strings aren't. That's why after 2016 there was a concerted effort to gain control over and censor social media and establish some kind of ministry of truth.
[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 7 monthsOct 31, 2024 12:57:37 ago (+1/-0)
They know they are irrelevant. That's the point. To fragment a populational narrative so that nobody trusts an authoritative source and instead clusters in distributed epistemic communities who are seeing the world through totally different perspectives. I think we're well past the point of seeing these developments as incompetence (of any sort). At some level, we are dealing with hyper-competence, which means we can't also attribute total ignorance and failure to them. We have to make up our minds about this.
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[ - ] yesiknow 0 points 7 monthsOct 31, 2024 15:18:41 ago (+0/-0)
Anyone with a social science degree is unattached to reality.
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They have also always been much more fitted to jobs where people literally tell them what to do. Readother people's words etc.
It's why they are horrible at coming to logical independent conclusions.
Perhaps the worst as a self selected group for that.
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