[chakkepolja]

The fourth estate continues to fall because it's, ironnically, run by the liberal arts _elite_. These people seem to be the ones who grew up in rich or upper middle class families, took up liberal arts for sake of a degree, spent most of their life in similarly 'elite' bubbles.

The rigour of their study is limited to parroting few often-repeated words here and there.

[pessimizer]

> The fourth estate continues to fall because it's, ironnically, run by the liberal arts _elite_.

No it's run by the same billionaires that run everything else. You're mistaking the employees for the employers.

The reason they hire a certain subset of upper middle class liberal arts majors is because that's a group of people who study in order to learn their beliefs and gain their credentials, rather than to learn skills and accumulate experience. They'll have any opinion you tell them to have that isn't about an issue that affects themselves or their loved ones. Since they and their friends are upper middle class, very few things will ever affect them in a negative way other than disease, prejudice, or domestic violence. Oh, and mean people on twitter.

[wincy]

I remember when people were getting suspended from Twitter for telling journalists to “#learntocode” after a bunch of them got laid off [0]. It was characterized as “targeted harassment”.

Which was ironic as several months before the tone deaf journos had been writing articles encouraging former coal mines to learn to code.

[0] https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/182016...

[fzeroracer]

I'm sure you understand the difference between intent of what you're saying and the actual meaning of the words you're using. 'Let's Go Brandon' does not in fact mean people are cheering on an individual named Brandon, and often #learntocode wasn't used to actually help people learn to code. It was a bunch of people hijacking a slogan, hashtag, whatever in order to annoy a group of people they disliked. Much like 'Let's Go Brandon' is used by people that are, I don't know, afraid they're gonna get assassinated by a Democrat or something?

[chakkepolja]

I am pretty sure these journalists already do lot of targetted harassment against people they don't like.

Karma?

[jpadkins]

Let's go Brandon is used when you want to express 'Fuck Joe Biden' but in polite company.

Only GOP congressional baseball players are afraid of getting assassinated by Democrats.

[chiefalchemist]

Who is failing isn't important, yet. Step 1 is to get more people to understand we do have a problem, and that it's not limited to the internet. Adding who to the quest is a distraction, at least for now.