An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China.
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too