So I guess no one is supposed to notice

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31. If facts don't matters journalism merely provides a venue. No value-add.

Once they perfected the voice of "gravitas", that journalistic-sounding seriousness in their voice, they turned the substance of their job into a joke.

The key thing is gravitas. Once you can fake that, you've got it made....

Once upon a time, I watched the news for information, as in facts. These days, the only "facts" they care about is that it's a fact that someone said something. If the something they said is a lie it's not their problem. Hell, it makes their story more interesting.

To avoid fact-checking is to say that facts are up for partisan debate, and *that* is a cornerstone of fascism.