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A few days ago someone on Substack admonished me for suggesting that legacy media was helping Trump either on purpose or indirectly through greed and incompetence. This person said my comments were irresponsible as I was contributing to erosion in trust in the media. That’s like yelling at someone for pointing out a giant fire next door by saying that’s contributing to people’s increased fear of fires. And yeah I get that there are good journalists even at corporate media outlets, but the institution itself is not meeting the moment at all.

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We can’t deny when the media is failing. It’s like pretending there isn’t a cancerous lesion.

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Well said. As a female, "irresponsible" is a dog whistle for "little lady you're going too far and don't understand what you said". It may apply to men too now!

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I hadn't thought about that way of reading it, but I do believe you have a very good point!

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Why is it that so many people think you are the problem when you point out that the emperor has no clothes???

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Well stated. The admonisher likely supports the Convicted Felon.

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