I’m continually surprised by how many editors think that “we platform just about anybody, it’s a marketplace of ideas, heavens no we’re not ENDORSING this” is satisfying or even what readers are looking for.
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I have an ill-formed thought that “neutral” both-sides journalism in a for-profit environment rewards and encourages extremism in the long-run because it gets attention, and because it seeks it out.
Yes. It can be really lazy to just chalk everything up to capitalism and capitalism, but it’s really hard to ignore the fingers on the scale from capital. Big Leftist Reading Group isn’t exactly manufacturing consensus anywhere and it shows with these editors.
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I have never seen an op-ed in a major paper or platform advocating, say, actual communism or any kind of anarchist system.