with all public discourse now based entirely on ad engagement, op/ed sections are now just troll farms pretending to be heady debate
I suspect at some point we (myself included) need to develop an immune response so we stop taking the bait
One of the biggest money makers in the last decade is getting center-left people upset enough to repeatedly outrage share (and amplify) your terrible ideas
ask Matt taibbi, the NYT, and about seven thousand self published journalists nursing the twitter to substack outrage engagement pipeline
Great. A newspaper that has 10 million subscribers and roughly $300 million profits last year is now trying to squeeze more ad revenue at the expense of our democracy.
i sound like a broken record but this is what i keep telling friends/family who are constantly infuriated by this stuff. it's their attempt at socially acceptable clickbait