• merc@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    where tf were the journalists while Santos was running his campaign on these false claims?

    There aren’t enough journalists to go around. There are hundreds of congresspeople and there definitely aren’t hundreds of journalists covering random unimportant congresspeople.

    People have voted with their dollars, saying they don’t care enough about vetting congresspeople before they’re elected to actually pay the salaries of journalists to do that.

    • MiscreantMouse@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      11 months ago

      Wow, so It’s almost as if expecting unregulated capitalism to solve this problem is not working? How could that be?

      Oh well, I guess we just need to ignore the problem until it gets better.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        Look the incredibly rich people who own the media wish that us peasants would care enough about politics to force them to cover these things properly but unfortunately all their journalists are busy writing opinion pieces about how we need to get back in the office, how we shouldn’t even try to make ethical purchasing decisions, and how great whatever makes them the most money this week is.