Journalism and trust
mardi 10 juillet 2018 à 02:00Focusing journalism mainly on exposing corruption and cruelty tends to teach people a right-wing viewpoint — that you can't trust anyone.
Jefferson wrote about one widespread kind of political conflict, between trusting the people to participate in government or excluding them. But the conflict in the US today is only partly about that. The main question at stake is whether the rich can reduce most people to desperate penury and convert them into serfs.