Thread by @BaldingsWorld

As I have detailed repeatedly, my complaint about journalism is not that they have an view point they want to push but rather they are awful at their fundamental job on gathering facts about complex news issues and events. The reason this matters is it provides very VERY 1/n

Distorted understanding and importantly solutions to problems. More importantly for them it sets their preferred candidates up for failure because they have absolutely no chance of providing the absurdly simple solutions provided by journalistic narratives. Couple examples 2/n

For the last four years the answer to any foreign policy issue was "stupid Trump". What was sold was that new leadership would be able to solve these problems. Anyone that wasn't cursed with a Galaxy Journo Brain knew these issues were deep seeded going back decades 3/n

So look at the great big nothing that came out of Rome and will come out of Glasgow. In reality, that's not Biden's fault anymore than it is Trump's fault back when he was president. The problem however is because Journo wrote ad nauseum about how experts would change this 4/n

Now are forced to ignore everything they wrote and cover their eyes to avoid writing a piece how this isn't Biden's fault because nothing happened. The reality is these are very difficult policy issues that even very technically and ideologically similar individuals 5/n

(such as activists or professors) may disagree about what exactly to do much less broad ranges of countries with very different endowments, governance systems, and interests. However, because journalists have taken up the mantle of activists with pens rather than journalists 6/n

The information world is poorer for not understanding these complex issues instead boiling climate change down to personality conflicts in a TMZ style Shakespearian tragedy of water cooler gossip. That is a disservice to the information world and being really bad at your job 7/n

The reality is a different president or just trying harder have little to do with anything here but this is what we are sold as a type of modern Catholic guilt because journos have no understanding of what the actual issues are with the teaspoon depth of understanding on them 8/n

I am 100% for free speech an vibrant journalism but the quality of work being turned out by standard bearers is as bad as said and worse and should just focus on providing facts and information about complex issues. Yes, that's bad journalism and journos are responsible.