This from @timdunlop gets right to the heart of why the us/them divide between journalists and the mouthy unwashed is so tiresome, self-perpetuating, escalatory and destructive.

The whole piece is excellent and I would recommend all journalists and Twitter dot com users read and reflect. https://meanjin.com.au/blog/journalism-serves-democracy-thats-us/

Final excerpt as it should all be read, but for the time poor: journalists need to understand the reason people feel like they are being gaslit is because they are being gaslit.

I've been drafting something up along these lines as I can entirely understand each side's frustrations. Some of the kneejerk brick-batting goes too far and there is a real risk proper scrutiny suffers, but any failure to recognise critique is mostly a 'reaction' is farcical.

Raises one of many reasons it's ridiculous to swipe at a homogenous twitter blob acting in one particular way - certain News columnists (let's go with Jita, Moe and Jiranda) have honed unleashing flying monkey posses to quash dissent into an artform. https://twitter.com/Busabx/status/1321038956192935936