politics

I've said it before, but I really don't understand how these "Journalists" function. Like, surely they would know that flat out lying to people is the opposite of all those starry-eyed dreams they had studying journalism at uni. Like, surely someone gets into journalism because they want to inform the public, or they want to win a Pulitzer or something. So I don't get how they could be so soulless in their career, how do they justify it to themselves? Is it just the money? Is it the "if I wasn't doing this, someone else would be, so I might as well benefit" are they true believers who think that anything can be justified, as long as it makes "their side" look good? I can't imagine them being anything other than incredibly evil and selfish, or incredibly naive or stupid, or some combination of the two.

I don't think there's a single group of people I would trust less than journalists, maybe political scientists or economists.

EDIT: I think I might've found a worse group of people, the sort of people who recognise that journalists are full of shit, and yet will take the word of journalists as gospel, as long as it agrees with their preconceived notions about the scary brown people.