Long, VERY LONG thread👇👇👇:

1- Reflections on yesterday’s storming of the Capitol, and the responsibility borne by the sensationalist inflammatory indecent dishonest Media of the 21st century for those events, their clones, their antecedents, and their aftermath.

2- To be fair, 21st century media are stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand they suffer a paucity of old-style journalists & beat-reporters; on the other hand they face stiff competition & “news” overkill from new forms of media, what the French call GAFTA;

3- that is to say Google Apple Facebook Twitter Amazon and 24-hour news channels etc.) Thus the Media today are no more than glittering (that is to say cheap vulgar bling bling) platforms for sensationalism, scoops, “citizen journalism,” oversimplifications, jingles, slogans,

4- punchlines, shock-jock “fast-food” type of opinion (not to say opinionated) journalism and talk-show-type “reporting” at the expense of substantive probing investigative journalism and transmission of knowledge.

5- In this world of superficiality, where the “honor” of being a journalist (or for that matter a cognoscenti) is given to those who don’t deserve it, EVERYONE becomes an expert, a pundit, an analyst, an interpreter, a philosopher…