Yeah, I understand that and I’m not sure what can be done about it. In the US we gave up on having accountability in news reporting, and that is fucking over international journalism by… contamination or something.
I’m sorry world. I wish we had done more and better.
In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn’t talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn’t hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one…
Yeah, I understand that and I’m not sure what can be done about it. In the US we gave up on having accountability in news reporting, and that is fucking over international journalism by… contamination or something.
I’m sorry world. I wish we had done more and better.
In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn’t talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn’t hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one…