Journalists aren’t the enemy of the people. But we’re not your friends either
When was the last time you read a news article about a topic where you are an expert, and walked away from it thinking that it would help laymen better understand the topic?<p>Journalism is a bit of a personal frustration of mine.  It&#x27;s <i>so important</i> to the function of our society to have an informed population, but we don&#x27;t, and it&#x27;s because of the consistent lying that is done by journalists that we don&#x27;t.  Maybe not solely, but the news is one of our primary sense organs, and it&#x27;s currently broken, or perhaps worse: it&#x27;s currently on psychadelic drugs and is telling us things that aren&#x27;t real.  If it goes on long enough, we&#x27;re going to end up schitzophrenic as a society.  I think that at the very least we are in the middle of a metaphorical psychotic break.  I hope we recover from it, and I really wish that the journalists would at least try to help us, instead of blatantly trying fuel it.<p>And while we&#x27;re at it: shut down twitter.  It&#x27;s the drug dealer give our sensemaking organs the drugs.