valid and no love for those fucks, but you’ll find that practically every media outlet is owned or controlled by the forces of evil. on the other hand, politico didn’t start as an AS wing, it got acquired. plus, there’s not a lot of places real journos can work at.

we’re in deep into the enshittocene, there is no other solution than to treat every source with the same healthy scepticism and distance you’d apply in the school yard - “oh yeah?”, “how come?”, “says who?”, etc.