Once again: the fact that academics have to do often the basic job of journalists (providing accurate information to the public, when it isn't even demystifying their claims) speaks volumes about the level of democratic crisis in this country (there is no democracy without a well informed public)
From what I can see, many journalists today don't appear to know what they don't know (Rumsfeld's "known unknowns"), and worse, don't seem to have any understanding that they can and should ask someone with subject matter expertise.
And the quality of journalism
yeah, that's the cause (one of the causes) of democratic crisis! We really didn't learn anything from the Brexit referendum
I was going to do a blog post on the entry exit system when it starts (based on my JHA book) but maybe it needs to come earlier
Well, we did. An mis/dis/un-informed population can be manipulated to act against its own interests.