Quick thread on the Capitol siege and media culpability (it's not what you might expect) incoming.
Recently, we've heard A LOT about media culpability for platforming and laundering the ideologies of white supremacists like Richard Spencer. All fair.
I won't rehash the other list of grievances.
But there's another issue that's older: the death of print media and paywalls.
Contemporary media rests on two foundations:
1) access 2) profit
Obviously, the need for each corrupts the entire enterprise. But their convergence raises an urgent problem we need to address ASAP.