My first pick in #whatwentwrong would be a journalistic establishment that forgot to ask hard questions of the political bigwigs and forgot that it’s loyalty lies with the public to specifically amplify and uncover the truth.
https://twitter.com/shekhargupta/status/1382907638816460806
The only reason that Indian journalism is still standing is because of a handful of outlets and platforms that stuck to their guns.
I say this because instead of holding leaders responsible their absolute nonsense was amplified. It took three months between when I first posted about Covid loans taken by the Indian govt. and when a financial platform ran with the story AFTER i contacted them to follow it up.
And even after that no questions were raised about where the money went.
One can say “we were caught unprepared” when there is some exogenous shock. We can’t say we were unprepared when the whole world is in a pandemic.
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