Very disappointed in MSNBC for canceling Mehdi Hasan, Ali Velshi and Ayman Mohyeldin
@FinnegansWhacked I stopped paying any attention to news channels 25 years ago when I arrived back in the USA.
They exist to provide glib and defective views of current events. There is no useful content, and we have (as Garry Kasparov keeps pointing out) entered the post-truth era, where facts have been squeezed out in favour of flooding the zone with shit.
Amusing ourselves to death? More like amusing ourselves into a pomo neofeudalist epistemic bubble. The 24hr cable news cycle and its dependence on RATINGS! and CLICKS! prioritizes bullshit and disinfo over news, analysis, and context.
How else did we end up with a fraudulent "reality show" host as president?