None of them are any smarter than their billionaire owners allow them to be. Some of them actually believe the odious crap they crank out.

NYT politics reporters whose only experience was Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller for a year (questionable hiring even to them!) bsky.app/profile/orig... "Ross Douthat approves of" ex-gay Michael Barbaro bsky.app/profile/orig... Crypto-conservative "centrist" editors grooming their great replacement:

2006 report & nothing ever done about it, the stage is being set, the propaganda people are moving into position en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_S...

Not about being smart but about having bad motives IMHO. They want to protect their own privileges

theyre not unfortunately. a couple years after signing up for twitter it had slowly dawned on me that im smarter than the "serious people" in politics, media, entertainment. harvard graduates, lawyers, people paid to write their opinions: dumb, incurious, reflexively reactionary, even the liberals