Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon
“‘Tom, I got nothin.’’ That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check in and see what I was planning for my next piece. I wanted to tell him, ‘I’m staring at starvation and genocide, the destruction of American democracy and the rule of law, along with the ongoing incineration of our planet. I’m a damp ball of grief, and I’ve got nothing useful to say about any of it.’ Furthermore, I wanted to add, ‘Anything I could say about the present disaster has already been said comprehensively and better by someone else.’ That ‘someone else’ includes myriad excellent journalists who have departed (voluntarily or otherwise) from a mainstream media that has repeatedly acquiesced to Trump, succumbing to a malaise of self-censorship at flagship newspapers like the Washington Post and even the New York Times.” (01/13/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/reflections-on-a-low-dishonest-decade/