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Jasot Turbot's avatar

It's been my observation that as America becomes increasingly enamored of credentials rather than expertise, we have correspondingly found ourselves bombarded with "information" of little actionable content or utility. Alas, now that the Credentialists have the upper hand, they are pretty effectively mortaring that unfortunate paradigm in place for our foreseeable future.

The scribbling shall continue until morale improves, I guess. Or something like that...

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Dave Denison's avatar

I guess some people would see journalists as people with credentials without necessarily having expertise... And at the same time, the web opened us up to a world of opinion and agitations by non-credential non-experts. "A world of pain," as Walter Sobchak would say.

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Jasot Turbot's avatar

Perhaps. Although journos attempt in good faith to capture, summarize and inform about facts as they can be understood. In contrast, the scribblers often do little more that theorize and spitball, to little practical effect. Although they do manage to create mountains of pointless busywork.

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Dave Denison's avatar

Some Substack scribbling is sub-standard but I hope you are finding mine up to snuff.

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Jasot Turbot's avatar

Well Dave, your writing borders on the limits of my reading comprehension sometimes, but it always make great sense. Much more than scribbling, I should argue...

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