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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by a1369209993 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#27584750)
That (better) framing would probably need to involve making a distinction between legitimate (eg investigative) journalists versus primarily-twitter-covering psuedo-tabloid journalists, which is rather fraught at the best of times, since most authorities (formal or informal) have a obvious incentive to misclassify legitimate journalists as tabloidists, and a less obvious incentive to misclassify tabloids as legitimate journalism. (This gets much worse if you try to do anything material with the distiction, thanks to [0].) Not that it's impossible, but I'm not optimistic.

Besides, there were plenty of clergy who were otherwise fairly decent people.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by steveBK123 on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:37PM (#27586980)
Well it's also hard to blame journalists for writing the kind of stuff that gets clicks, which is what gets them all paid.
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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by tarsinge on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:45AM (#27588708)
On the contrary it’s important that they know the damage it do to society.
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