I’m going to tell my kids this was the the 14th century

Always weird (and obnoxious) for media figures to dismiss media criticism by claiming it’s not a problem because journalism is worthless, words are meaningless, and which information people do and don’t see or hear, how they get the info, and how it’s framed don’t matter at all.

Will Stancil We’re all in the cave, man

It’s funny because we truly have no problem attributing dramatic political shifts to new media in retrospect, we just perpetually refuse to acknowledge it could be a factor in contemporary politics. Doing so suggests that maybe our perceptions are fogged and distorted.

Will Stancil Imagine seeing for example the mass support for the Spanish American war ginned up by Hearst newspapers and insisting that in fact Americans were just independently evaluating the sinking of the Maine and the geopolitics.

Okay but that was the last time ideologies shaped by media affected the real world. It’s been pure material conditions ever since. Just look at enough economic charts and you’ll be able to predict all elections

Here’s a thought: maybe one problem with our political media is that the people who have spent their entire careers as a top politics writer at places like the New York Times and Politico are convinced that their own words have no effect on politics?

Bc on a host of major issues, the state is better positioned to know and decide things. More important, it has independent interest in kids’ education. That is not a denigration of parents. The state also very much needs parents to do a host of things to make schools work and…

Give me a break w/ all the pro-voucher parents ought to decide not government stuff. If true, why do states mandate attendance, length of the school year in public & private schools, curriculum, testing, teacher certification & more? 1/ dailywire.com/news/will-scho…

Just a parade of misery for the GOP in headlines today

The stock market has done what, now

PSA: Stop trying to make ketchup on hot dogs happen. It’s NOT going to happen. abc7chicago.com/heinz-ketchup-…

America must stand with Ukraine and democracy

It's unbelievable Trump said he’d encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want”

In the House, pro-Putin Republican radicals say we should reward Putin’s invasion with a peace treaty

These are modern-day Neville Chamberlains

From Twitter comments, I realize everyone here is on the edge of starvation and/or eviction. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us, based on talking to tens of thousands of real people, and hundreds of thousands of real businesses that most people are coming out ahead