"The problem is that any culture that does away with guardrails, that doesn’t allow for a delineation between truth and untruth..."
That assertion is exponentially more dangerous than any goofy rabbit-hole notions espoused by either side. Who in this nebulous entity "culture" gets to decide what comprises a "guardrail" delineating between…
"The problem is that any culture that does away with guardrails, that doesn’t allow for a delineation between truth and untruth..."
That assertion is exponentially more dangerous than any goofy rabbit-hole notions espoused by either side. Who in this nebulous entity "culture" gets to decide what comprises a "guardrail" delineating between truth and untruth? Where is this font of pure truth? In Cambridge? At the NYT? At the DNC? In the Holy Order of Content Mediators? Perhaps Peter Savodnik himself is so assured of his personal rightness on all matters that he can be the Oracle of Delphi for all of Western civilization? What kind of journalist advocates for the most insidious and totalitarian kind of censorship?
Peter, as a journalist, you get to attend the best college you can get into where they will perhaps teach you two things to be good at: digging out stories and the rhetorical skill to present them compellingly. Journalism is not possessing a world view that, when challenged, instead of doubling down on research and rhetoric, the journalist calls for society to silence everyone who doesn't buy his view. You are a crappy journalist Mr. Savodnik and your profession should be ashamed of your advocating for what amounts to the abolition of the First Amendment.
"The problem is that any culture that does away with guardrails, that doesn’t allow for a delineation between truth and untruth..."
That assertion is exponentially more dangerous than any goofy rabbit-hole notions espoused by either side. Who in this nebulous entity "culture" gets to decide what comprises a "guardrail" delineating between truth and untruth? Where is this font of pure truth? In Cambridge? At the NYT? At the DNC? In the Holy Order of Content Mediators? Perhaps Peter Savodnik himself is so assured of his personal rightness on all matters that he can be the Oracle of Delphi for all of Western civilization? What kind of journalist advocates for the most insidious and totalitarian kind of censorship?
Peter, as a journalist, you get to attend the best college you can get into where they will perhaps teach you two things to be good at: digging out stories and the rhetorical skill to present them compellingly. Journalism is not possessing a world view that, when challenged, instead of doubling down on research and rhetoric, the journalist calls for society to silence everyone who doesn't buy his view. You are a crappy journalist Mr. Savodnik and your profession should be ashamed of your advocating for what amounts to the abolition of the First Amendment.