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you could read a million of these stories and never come away with any understanding that unchecked corporate power and corruption has hollowed out our regulators like a cheap dollar store fake chocolate Easter bunny

I wish I had a nice trust fund so I could get my media studies masters with a focus on lazy pseudo journalism that normalizes or outright ignores corruption I genuinely find it fascinating how outlets and their employees have normalized this sort of stuff

for example, right here is where you could put a paragraph with ample hard data explaining how the trump administration has no credibility on "affordability" and by every meaningful metric has made everything worse Even if you're too editorially nervous to imply widespread corruption

I do sometimes wonder what separates the callow, shallow and venal mock journalists from the rest of us. Do those of us who care about fairness and justice and right and wrong simply know what it’s like to suffer? To be betrayed by authority that was supposed to protect us?

They're really quite well conditioned to not understand they're not doing a wonderful job

I hold that introspection is a quality.