You can’t bemoan someone’s disinterest in partisan slop if it isn’t their favorite flavor of slop.
People who want to avoid politics are hypocrites.
People who want to turn off the ads filling up their newspapers and televisions are perfectly rational.
What we lack isn’t human interest in world events. It is a news media that’s serving up valuable and actionable information.
The business-support model for news has dissolved away its educational value. All you have left is Page Six and a bunch of jerk off Op-Ed lightly sprinkled with State Department PR and guerrilla marketing.
A lot of “political” information is deceptive and loaded with bias.
Everything is political. Which is the point of this post. People who want to avoid politics are hypocrites.
You can’t bemoan someone’s disinterest in partisan slop if it isn’t their favorite flavor of slop.
People who want to turn off the ads filling up their newspapers and televisions are perfectly rational.
What we lack isn’t human interest in world events. It is a news media that’s serving up valuable and actionable information.
The business-support model for news has dissolved away its educational value. All you have left is Page Six and a bunch of jerk off Op-Ed lightly sprinkled with State Department PR and guerrilla marketing.
This conversation is not as specific as you’re acting like it is.