14th April 2020, 4:22 PM
Turns out that not everyone is comfortable selling their soul for the millions cable news pays their mouth pieces.
He did "take it back" and apologize today. I think what he said Monday is what he really thinks though. Outbursts like that don't just come out of one day's bad mood. And he was right too. CNN, MSNBC, and of COURSE Fox News are news stations that have failed us all. Fox News is propaganda for the right, CNN promotes a false sense of "both sidesism" which he goes into here, and MSNBC pretends to be a left leaning network but when push comes to shove, they're centrists beholden to the money above all else.
For profit news has failed as badly as for profit prisons and for profit healthcare. And no, I'm not saying state run news is a good solution like it would be for those other two problem industries, but we do need A solution.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)