Karl Bode: yep that's a feature (of a consolidated, billionaire owned press), not a bug distraction and horse race bullshit

the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country

of course www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/p...

Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court r...

people are absolutely going to die and yet the ruling enjoyed all of like 30 hours or so as a journalistic priority

Hell, I think that's generous by a factor of 10.

And half the articles about it kind of treated it like an irrelevant tangential and not all that interesting dispute about bureaucratic minutae

They’ve gutted their staff of anyone with the expertise needed to explain it, leaving us with pundits and commentators who only know how to cover politics as celebrity gossip and sports

yep that's a feature (of a consolidated, billionaire owned press), not a bug distraction and horse race bullshit

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