The problem of Serious People
No, I don’t want a partisan media. But I do want a media with a better bullshit detector, one that doesn’t feel the need to bend over backwards to be “fair” whenever somebody wants to say that torture and unchecked power are necessary to defend freedom. I want a media that won’t let somebody show up and defend torture, treat him as a Serious Person, and then thank him for appearing on the show. Some shit is just plain wrong, but if you don’t say that, if you treat the advocates for it as another perspective deserving equal time, then the crimes that are going on are perceived as “controversies” rather than blatant crimes. And that makes it impossible to be taken “seriously” when you argue in favor of treating this stuff as crimes, and impeaching those responsible.
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