Malnourished

“Having worked in cable news for more than a decade after a wonderfully misspent youth in newspapers, I can tell you the result: a nation of news consumers both overfed and malnourished. Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.”

—Chris Stirewalt, former Fox politics editor, “Op-Ed: I called Arizona for Biden on Fox News. Here's what I learned,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2021. (Thanks to alert WORDster Tony Seton)

 

• Editorial Comment: Well said, Mr. Stirewalt. But weren’t you at least a sous-chef in that kitchen?

 

 

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