Slate.com

I don't know if Slate was ever good, or if I've just grown tired of the epidemic of tribalism on both sides and have lost tolerance for their hack journalism. Today's web site has a very interesting case of how bad the site has become.

There are 2 articles arguing that we should or should not be fact-checking every apparently idiotic thing Trump says (I say "apparently," because time has shown a method to Trump's madness). The fact that the site is still being so easily manipulated by Trump 2 years after he burst onto the scene is, well, sad.

If Slate is trying to be a tribal partisan and fight Trump, they should not be wasting journalistic effort (both words apply very loosely to these two articles) on statements that are meant to be hyperbolic, and focus on what they think really matters (hint: it's not how many ballgowns are left in DC stores or whether the AP did the right thing fact-checking). These would be distractions to you and your cause. But, if they're a business cynically fishing for clicks and revenue, then, effort devoted to outrage-inducing click-bait will pay off.