That Freddie deBoer article is something. After assuring us that he's not like those evil right-wingers:
"...How could it possibly be healthy for the entire media industry to be captured by any single niche political movement, let alone one that nobody likes?
And the bizarre assumption of almost everyone in media seems to have been that they could adopt this brand of extreme niche politics, in mass, as an industry, and treat those politics as a crusade that trumps every other journalistic value, with no professional or economic consequences. They seem to have thought that Americans were just going to swallow it; they seem to have thought they could paint most of the country as vicious bigots and that their audiences would just come along for the ride. They haven’t."
That Freddie deBoer article is something. After assuring us that he's not like those evil right-wingers:
"...How could it possibly be healthy for the entire media industry to be captured by any single niche political movement, let alone one that nobody likes?
And the bizarre assumption of almost everyone in media seems to have been that they could adopt this brand of extreme niche politics, in mass, as an industry, and treat those politics as a crusade that trumps every other journalistic value, with no professional or economic consequences. They seem to have thought that Americans were just going to swallow it; they seem to have thought they could paint most of the country as vicious bigots and that their audiences would just come along for the ride. They haven’t."