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Originally Posted by Acajack
Journalism in general has gotten very teary-eyed in recent years. I mean, you don't want to show the pearly whites too much when talking about a plane crash that killed 200 people, but still... some people go way overboard with the emotion.
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I worked for the news division at one of the networks and knew the people at the other well. Rarely competitive, mostly good camaraderie, this was in the 80s-90s. Totally unrecognizable today, sadly.
There's a good explanation for the societal shift by Jonathan Heidt below (start at 11:30) Ignore the Youtube poster's ideology and listen to Haidt himself.
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