Summary
Elon Musk’s address to Germany’s far-right AfD party, where he downplayed Germany’s Nazi past and criticized multiculturalism, has sparked global alarm.
Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called the remarks “incredibly dangerous,” warning of their potential to embolden right-wing extremists and threaten Jewish security worldwide.
Critics highlighted Musk’s alignment with far-right ideologies, including his Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration.
Reality is always going to be less profitable.
Traditional journalism is dead. It doesn’t pay nearly enough to survive these days, not to mention the stress from being attacked by politicians and their followers.
Can it change? Yes. But that means taking down the oligarchy and capitalism.
Funny enough, I was just reading a book that went over, in part, journalism in late 19th century America.
It’s… probably never been great. Yellow Journalism was a term that arose then, after all.
It is a problem we should address, I agree! Just… maybe honest journalism wasn’t all that lively in the past either, and the population was just less capable of parsing that than we are.
The honest journalism of the 20th century was an historic outlier.
Unfortunately I think you’re probably right. I still have some hope left in the tank for new outlets like 404 Media and Zeteo, but in general I think you’re right.