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You know you're getting fed up with the laziness of legacy media (with science, with medicine, with war events where the rush to press can and does cause harm...) when you look at a simple, cute article about penguins...
And immediately argue with it, because - hey! It's also possible they're living a tortured existence! You don't know, Phoebe! You didn't run tests to exclude the possibility!
(Cue Herzog's classic quote about how all of nature is crying out in pain...)
Okay, off for a walk. 🙃
If I can stress one thing, though: it *is* laziness, built into the system through underfunded newsrooms & relentless pressure to cut corners & produce content that lands best in search results.
We need an economy of "slow media" so badly, but we're currently too hooked on this one's trauma cycle to switch off. If we can't get our fix on legacy media, then it's off to other info silos where disinformation reigns.
IOW: we're stuck until the satellites go down and force a hard cultural reboot. 🙃