Stop! Expecting! The Media! To! Be! Good!
10 points for the next opinionator who, instead of pointing out that the govenrment arn't being asked hard enough questions, actually reflects on the structural role of journalism and journalists in this country
Also while we are at it, let's treat that Emily Matlis clip with a healthy does of cynicism. What does it change? What is it good for?
Im not a big fan of that Sedgwick essay on paranoid/reparative readings but I keep thinking of the opening where she asks what difference it makes knowing the US govt was leaving people to death during the AIDs crisis. How does that change what we already know about governments?
Anyhow my point is we shouldn't be suprised that journalists don't hold power to account; and we need to think about what holding power to account would actually be, beyond some bbc figure stating the obvious
My point with the Sedgwick essay is not to compare the AIDs crisis to this btw. And for the record, I hate how that essay has been recently used to duck difficult questions about race; and to label those asking them as paranoid.
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