"They are not here to help you figure out what you believe. You are a hopelessly irrational consumer. They are here, rather, to tell you what to think.
There is no attempt to distinguish between the journalistic and the editorial. It all blurs together as “analysis”."
There is no attempt to distinguish between the journalistic and the editorial. It all blurs together as “analysis”."
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"Thus for Klein, the job of experts is not to give the public raw information, so that it can come to its own conclusions.
The job of experts is to process the information themselves, and tell the public what it ought to have concluded."
currentaffairs.org/2016/11/explai…
The job of experts is to process the information themselves, and tell the public what it ought to have concluded."
currentaffairs.org/2016/11/explai…
"This means...Vox inherently practices a crude and cruel form of rhetorical dishonesty: it treats matters of profound complexity as if they are able to be settled through mere expertise. If anyone disagrees with what [Vox] have concluded, they must be dumb, delusional, or both."
"People have good reason for not trusting fact-checkers and wonks.
That is because they lie.
And they torment people with those lies, by portraying disagreement as an irrational refusal to acknowledge objective empirical truth."
That is because they lie.
And they torment people with those lies, by portraying disagreement as an irrational refusal to acknowledge objective empirical truth."
"The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn’t think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts."
"Inevitably, these experts will produce solutions nobody likes, because the moment one is convinced that all opposition must be founded in ignorance, one will always be right no matter how many people are hurt or how many people complain."
"Vox’s difficulty at getting the facts right emerges from its confidence in the wisdom of 22-year-old [Washington] D.C. clickbait-churners.
It is “an explainer site by people who live way too much of their own lives outside reality.”"
It is “an explainer site by people who live way too much of their own lives outside reality.”"
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