2/2: #CivilWar? Is Woke weakening & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

Jun 06, 2021, 03:46 AM

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2/2: #CivilWar? Is Woke weakening & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-drives-conspiracism-11622759795?mod=opinion_lead_pos9

"Newsrooms are undergoing their own revolution, with woke progressives vs. journalistic traditionalists, advocacy versus old-school news values. It is ideological. “We are here to shape and encourage a new reality.” “No, we are here to find and report the news.” It is generational: The young have the upper hand and the Slack channel. The woke are winning. If a year ago you thought the obvious—maybe the coronavirus that came from Wuhan leaked out of the Wuhan lab where they were studying coronaviruses—you were shut down as racist, bigoted, divisive. The progressives’ great talent is policing, and they are always on patrol. Everyone, even the most unsophisticated news consumer, can kind of tell."