Covid-2019 - 2022-01-08

In Recommended Reading, a story from the New York Times that says it all about the state of elite opinion: "How to Think About Covid Data Right Now." It's no longer about news. It's no longer about opinion. It's not even about telling people what to think. It's telling people how to think. Ask yourself how the public can possibly get the facts about the pandemic when the objective of the industry that gathers the facts and disseminates them is preoccupied with the transformation of your mental processes -- and isn't even afraid of admitting that is its goal, indeed touting it as a virtue? Journalism isn't a profession anymore. It's a religion.