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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (306200)10/12/2024 6:51:11 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 354561
 
>> We used to have and generally trust our authorities in context.

Yeah. Way back. The last such person I can remember Tim Russert, and before that was David Brinkley.

You're totally focused on political reporting. Russert and Brinkley were not authorities but reporters. This problem is bigger than politics although there are some who make everything political. I'm looking at actual experts and people with the responsibility and authority to develop data and report it out. So many seemingly don't trust anything nor have they the skills nor the temperament to analyze and interpret. I'm talking medical experts, academia, government authorities. There are some number of people who died of liver cancer last year. There are people in positions charged with knowing that number and how it's derived and the associated factors. Does this treatment or this drug or that work better? You nihilists have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. And you either don't care or actually advocate for the chaos. It's a values issue.

Russert and Brinkley were in command of their domains. They didn't have the peanut gallery taking potshots at them.
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