11 Reasons Why Vox is Actually Fascist

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This week, we compare the paranoia over "fake news" to the pseudo-smart grandstanding of Vox dot com. We cover a few recent articles (linked below) that help us detail the shortcomings of Vox's "explaining the news" approach and unearth the ideology beneath its neutral surface. We talk the politics of belief, Ezra Klein's straight-A aesthetic, and Matt Yglesias' boring burrito drivel. We also struggle to name-drop de Certeau, and then lay bare why Hillary was deemed "more electable." Nathan J. Robinson, "Explaining It All to You" & "The Necessity of Credibility" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/explaining-it-all https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/12/the-necessity-of-credibility David V. Johnson, "Explanation for What?" http://thebaffler.com/salvos/explanation-for-what-johnson Ezra Klein, "How Politics Makes Us Stupid" http://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid