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The intent of many in the media today is to humiliate others, strip them of dignity, reveal their pathetic fallibility — all to confirm a worldview in which they are good and their perceived enemies, for reasons personal and political, are bad.
It’s not just about being cruel or petty or not having a sense of context or proportion, or regard for what can fairly be considered “a story.” And it’s not just about partisan ideology, though it’s often also about that.
This isn’t about any one reporter. Increasingly, this behavior — long encouraged for clicks at underdog outlets — is being legitimized by mainstream institutions. We’re all worse off for it. We’re becoming an industry of vigilante bullies.
