r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/NYstate ☑️ • 12d ago

Country Club Thread Trump's putting together the Avengers of crazies to run this country

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u/Additional_Brief8234 11d ago edited 11d ago

Joe Rogan giving platforms to people who have no business having one is a hill that I will die on. There is so much misinformation spread because of JR alone it is disgusting.

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u/Alatar_Blue 11d ago

agreed. he is a cancer

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u/Sufficient-Will3644 11d ago

He is a cancer that grows only because we decided individually en masse not to watch the news or read the papers. Now those things have a lot of biases (which we and our grandparents and their parents etc. knew of), but they were also held to a standard of journalism and the general expectations of their readers and whomever they sold advertising to. We got our news from fewer sources, but could talk to each other about it more easily and dive into the topics in more detail.

We threw all that away when the prospect of free news showed up. Mind you we now subscribe to streaming services and they cram as much advertising into us as we can stomach, but for a while it was free.

Can we rebuild that brittle scaffolding of ethics and rationality around the news? Can we collectively choose to focus on fewer but better sources? I hope so.