Media literacy 2026: a reputable newspaper reports an obviously fake rumor from a tabloid as if it’s news. Major personalities only bother to read the headline and begin disseminating the story with commentary as if the thing is true.
And you wonder why society is so fucking dumb.
Not sure I will ever get used to how casually powerful people baselessly seed suspicion about our elections like this.
Call California ridiculously slow, by all means. But this goes well beyond that.
@AlexThomp A rare non-Biden related post from Alex Thompson comes in the form of a post about a Marco Rubio hype video. These Axios bros don’t miss, I tell ya
Scott Pelley’s Embarrassing Tantrum Proves Bari Weiss’s Point
When a child throws a tantrum, they’re punished. When a journalist throws a tantrum, they wait to be called stunning and brave.
My column @Mediaite
https://t.co/sxPhLGl5CY
The real problem for Bari isn’t what Pelley said, or even that she had to fire him. It’s that everyone applauded him for saying it and then the exchange leaked to every media reporter instantly. That will keep happening because she does not have and will never have their respect.
Every single journalist you see today making Scott Pelley a hero or martyr is complicit in the decline of the American press, which is viewed less favorably by Americans than Ebola.
The story of beloved media institutions in my lifetime is that they are taken over by people who don't love or understand them, and want to change them, and wind up destroying them.