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Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."

ms.nowOpinion | How the internet fractured the information ago — and drove down regard for actual facts and educationPhilip Bump: We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.

Philip Bump

@pbump.com

(This is also about news outlets that decide their role should not be to talk to people who actually understand the world but to people who think they do.)

4/1/26, 1:42 pm11 reposts183 likes

rbwick.bsky.social

@rbwick.bsky.social

4 Jan

There is zero news reporting on major networks. It's all opinion journalism. Not facts, but opinions. Most US networks lean one way or another by design. The truth of facts doesn't care about your opinion.

northsidejo.bsky.social

@northsidejo.bsky.social

4 Jan

They demand outrage and experts are usually too calm to generate the clicks they hunger for.