Thank you for highlighting the importance of legacy media. I have truly embraced "new media", such as Substack and Breaking Points, and I am certainly guilty of lambasting legacy media without realizing their value.
What makes it hard to hold both opinions simultaneously — that legacy media is important and needed, but also deeply flawed and deserving harsh criticism — is that when you criticize the press it makes you come off as an anti-institutional populist, and when you extoll it, it makes you seem like a pro-establishment elitist. Many people have negative associations with one or the other camp, and that drives them to be more one-sided in their stance. You have to not care how you "come off as."
Thank you for highlighting the importance of legacy media. I have truly embraced "new media", such as Substack and Breaking Points, and I am certainly guilty of lambasting legacy media without realizing their value.
What makes it hard to hold both opinions simultaneously — that legacy media is important and needed, but also deeply flawed and deserving harsh criticism — is that when you criticize the press it makes you come off as an anti-institutional populist, and when you extoll it, it makes you seem like a pro-establishment elitist. Many people have negative associations with one or the other camp, and that drives them to be more one-sided in their stance. You have to not care how you "come off as."