Has *anyone* in US media done any reckoning or self-reflection about the fact that they got caught up in a bogus moral panic driven by big retailers? Will anyone do anything differently the next time around?
Politicians and the press bought into the panic over organized shoplifting, but the source of the alarming statistic now admits that it was a lie.
Based on how uncritically they continue to report anything a cop tells them, I’m not holding my breath on that, personally l.
You could have ended that question at “self-reflection.”
@ifbookspod.bsky.social@michaelhobbes.bsky.social has been banging the drum on this for a while.
naw they all got paid for what they wrote or said about it so they absolutely do not give a flying fuck about it
They’re looking for the next moral panic to print.
I think we need to subpoena the communications of the guys that sell the doors they put in front of the deodorant
Next time? There wasn't "this time." Once the mainstream media found that out, they hurriedly moved on to something else.
why would they? moral panics have always been big business and readership draws
it's their job to fall for it next time. If they do anything differently they will simply be replaced by people who wouldn't.
More importantly WHEN WILL THEY FREE MY BOTTLE OF DELAYED RELEASE MELATONIN FROM ITS PLASTIC PRISON???