I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.
i’m guessing that most if not all of these people are access journalists rather than ignored journalists
ignored journalists know they are in the wilderness until they shout at the walls “my dudes, invasion is approaching”
access journalists are flustered by losing any form of access, especially when they cultivate that access so hard they’ve lost ability to assess critically until they are cast out
but that’s just my opinion and i’m probably wrong