Mickey_Malthus

Roger Ailes was in the Nixon administration as the Executive Producer for television. Fox News is essentially the outsourcing of that function. For viewers who like what they're selling, it allows them to disregard unwelcome information from less partisan outlets.

As someone inspired to go into journalism by "success" stories such as Watergate and The Pentagon Papers, I've spent a career watching newsrooms full of mostly talented, mostly fair people grind out the grist of daily journalism as the industry steadily lost respect, influence, and financial stability.

Feeding that collapse, increasingly sophisticated, well-funded misinformation campaigns are eagerly snapped up by a audience that seems governed by motivated-reasoning, and hunger for confirmation bias.

Too often, "good" information no longer wins out, people simply turn away from sources that deliver news that contradicts their desires, and the free press no longer results in an informed populace.

What's to be done?

'of course the Boston cops would freak out.' -- Any more context or insight on this?