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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] brucethemoose 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't like where you're going with this, but I agree with the core issue of 'paper media' being kinda pretentious and self-indulgent. They're in their own reality bubble, and the contrast with (for example) how humble some of the best journalists on YouTube or newer upstartes are is quite stark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Well, I try to make it clear I'm not defending Musk or Zuckerberg.

I just generally think judging people on their style or lack or it is the simpletion young-teen take on people and that it's on their actions (which in the case of these two are pretty damning) that people should be judged on.

The Guardian, being a product of the Society it is in and the quite narrow slice of that Society it tends to represent (possibly because they're very much a bubble were people from a narrow range of origins in that Society almost invariably select their peers to come work with them), ends up doing the whole judging on image and words and putting it above judging on action often, probably because the upper classes in England are very much all about presentation first and foremost (the English Gentleman stereotype is all about presentation and not at all about taking others in consideration when chosing what one does or doesn't do) to a level that in most other Societies would be seen as fake and hypocrite.