Thirty years ago, my college roommate's dad held forth on the decline of the NYT since his youth, when you could have obtained a real education from the magazine and the book review.
It's another sure sign of my own senescence, along with the periodic recruitment letters from the AARP, that I now agree with him.
sgt doom and ben trovato, I don't understand how you get that you're wrong and still make out like you're right.
Yes, the media is money driven. Would you like a gold star for realising that. That does not mean that everything in the media is money-driven. Or that everyone in the media is working for a shadowy capitalist conspiracy. Try to hold two ideas in your head at the same time: one can (a) understand that the media is biased and (b) appreciate what it does for us simultaneously!
It's another sure sign of my own senescence, along with the periodic recruitment letters from the AARP, that I now agree with him.
Yes, the media is money driven. Would you like a gold star for realising that. That does not mean that everything in the media is money-driven. Or that everyone in the media is working for a shadowy capitalist conspiracy. Try to hold two ideas in your head at the same time: one can (a) understand that the media is biased and (b) appreciate what it does for us simultaneously!