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by uncomputation 1566 days ago
And what headline are they supposed to run with long-standing, systemic issues? “US Healthcare System Still Bad”? News is about current events. Things happening, not the state of the world as a whole.

If you don’t have newspapers, who are you becoming “well-informed” from? Journalists do the work of combing over government press releases, financial data, sourcing, interviews with relevant parties, etc. If they aren’t doing this, who is? The thing is, all of the more partisan news outlets whether Fox or Jacobin, get their base facts somewhere and if it is not their own reporters doing the grunt work, they are sourcing the actual base “facts” from the reporters you don’t seem to recognize.

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Yes. Continue to run those headlines until the status quo changes. These are active situations that continue get worse, and continue to currently negatively affect the majority of US citizens. The apathy is part of the reason nothing has improved. It's like we gave up. If you don't keep trying to improve, the revolutionaries will come, and no one will be able to defend what we have against them.