: The amount of outright race-baiting and extra race-baiting in political ads over on FB is getting kinda startling.
Figures, though, what with all the Boomers over on there, especially the panicky faux-Christians alt-white one. Reading their comments on the ads demonstrates to me that perhaps cognitive ability and IQ tests should be brought back into use in re: voting.
Those MFs are irretrievably GD stupid, and I say that not lightly.
@thedisasterautist I was talking with my older sister about this yesterday. I can tell she doesn’t the changes that have occurred in media. We grew up with Walter Cronkite on the news. As rock solid as you could get. The changes since then are so many and so fast, it’s hard to get a grip on them before everything changes again! I think this is where many boomers are. It’s not that they want to be panicky, but it all moves so fast for them. The feeling that they can’t catch up scares them
@allin: When the networks finally killed their news departments in the 1990s by requiring them to be profit-making arms and not (essentially) public service, actually throwing away decades of legacy reputation and national and international respect, that was it. It came about, of course, with the advent and ascension of Fox News, i.e., tabloid journalism for profit.