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Because a lot of the systems of accurate communication of the facts, and galvanization and organization of mass opinion, got corrupted into scumbag caricatures of themselves which served no one but the powerful, aided and abetted by dickheads like David Brooks. Anything else?
(I mean, I am happy if he realizes now. As long as he stops doing it going forward, and starts reporting in depth and in detail on things like the "No Kings" happening on Saturday.)
lol point taken
Yeah I wasn't yelling at you for posting it, I was yelling at David Brooks for being one of the particular faces of the death of journalism for several decades and now all of a sudden getting concerned about the aftermath.