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Originally Posted by north
The author is the poster child for today’s new crop of young “journalists” who infest and infect all the mainstream media, social media and “fact-checking” organizations. They are the byproduct of our taxpayer funded universities. God help us.
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as a point, and counter point;
I am pretty sure I am of Ben's generation, and I wasn't at all put off by this post;
I'm pretty sure that I gleaned his age from a long since disappeared (because of crashes) on the old TAC - the original version of the site where I was active many moons ago.
That ad may very well have been purely click bait, but that doesn't change the fact that journalism, for the most part is dead.
My wife happens to have a degree in journalism, and is repeatedly disgusted by what passes for journalism these days.