5/ "...it’s also fair to ask whether this head-on crash between journalism & increasingly tribal ideologies even mattered that much in the end. The perfect-storm fluke of mid-20th-century media monopolies that David Halberstam famously described as The Powers That Be have been zapped by electrons of the internet, creating other ways for folks to speak to each other on soc media or read targeted websites that appealed to their niche interests & ideas or prejudices.
But esp their prejudices"