It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain, says economist James Meadway
it’s on the OPINION section. it’s okay to not agree with it, they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject
if you read it and think “that’s stupid bullshit!”
you might come to the conclusion the editor wants.
I don’t necessarily disagree that that may be the intention, but “We’re going to platform apologia for a fascist’s policies so you can see how stupid it is” is, I feel, at the very least a severe strategic miscalculation.
Maybe there would be a big improvement to be had to the quality of the paper and the engagement, if it came with the right framing.
In a box on page 1: “One story in this paper is fake! Can you spot it? Write to (blah) with your guess and your reasons” and then see what people come up with and publish some of the letters with responses. Get people in a more healthy frame of mind for how to interact with the material.
(Bonus points if there is no fake story in most issues)
it’s on the OPINION section. it’s okay to not agree with it, they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject
if you read it and think “that’s stupid bullshit!”
you might come to the conclusion the editor wants.
I don’t necessarily disagree that that may be the intention, but “We’re going to platform apologia for a fascist’s policies so you can see how stupid it is” is, I feel, at the very least a severe strategic miscalculation.
You can’t a better formed opinion on a subject by reading trash.
GIGO
Yes but someone whose opinion is that ants are tiny robots doesn’t belong in the opinion section. I think this is on about that level.
What’s wrong with that tho
Maybe there would be a big improvement to be had to the quality of the paper and the engagement, if it came with the right framing.
In a box on page 1: “One story in this paper is fake! Can you spot it? Write to (blah) with your guess and your reasons” and then see what people come up with and publish some of the letters with responses. Get people in a more healthy frame of mind for how to interact with the material.
(Bonus points if there is no fake story in most issues)
No I mean what’s wrong with ants as robots
I’m 100% embracing this
lol okay fair point let me rephrase
That is more bizarre than what’s in this article but they are based in roughly the same level of factual rigor and connection to reality.
If I beg the ants to liberate us, will the Koreans hear me?