“so the Johns basically admit that the nature of the media beast is to keep feeding it the same old spicy story. not much respect for their readers/viewers and not much respect for the seriousness of the issues (political/economic/legal).
must be nice to work in ‘spectacle’ while the rest of us hold power accountable and build a real democracy. same old stale response – ‘we’re giving people what they want’ rather than ‘hmm, how can we play a constructive role here and make free speech mean something?'”
– littlefishes on John Cruickshank & John Tory on Q
