So, to be clear, Vox is very much part of the problem. Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias has openly said that he wants “wrong right-wing ideas to be discredited while wrong left-wing ideas gain power” in order to shift the US policy status quo to the left. In other words, Vox wants to tell their own narrative, and the President is better at getting his narrative out there than they are.
This doesn’t mean that what’s going on here isn’t a problem, it is. But a solution to these sorts of media issues and incentives is going to need to address Vox’s own misbehavior and related concerns as well.
I don’t yet have good ideas, but I roughly agree with the framing of the problem here, and solving it does seem to be one of the more important problems facing humanity this couple-decades.
It seems to me that ordinary people are usually obsessed with scandals and drama, so I think Occam’s Razor says that journalists are also obsessed with them and report on them because that’s what they want to do. That is, I don’t think all journalists are secretly wishing they could ignore Donald Trump but regrettably recognize that their incentives point in another direction—I think they enjoy reporting on Donald Trump, so they do it.
So, to be clear, Vox is very much part of the problem. Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias has openly said that he wants “wrong right-wing ideas to be discredited while wrong left-wing ideas gain power” in order to shift the US policy status quo to the left. In other words, Vox wants to tell their own narrative, and the President is better at getting his narrative out there than they are.
This doesn’t mean that what’s going on here isn’t a problem, it is. But a solution to these sorts of media issues and incentives is going to need to address Vox’s own misbehavior and related concerns as well.
I don’t yet have good ideas, but I roughly agree with the framing of the problem here, and solving it does seem to be one of the more important problems facing humanity this couple-decades.
It seems to me that ordinary people are usually obsessed with scandals and drama, so I think Occam’s Razor says that journalists are also obsessed with them and report on them because that’s what they want to do. That is, I don’t think all journalists are secretly wishing they could ignore Donald Trump but regrettably recognize that their incentives point in another direction—I think they enjoy reporting on Donald Trump, so they do it.