Stupid or Corrupt, Same DifferenceUnless you’ve worked in a newsroom it can be hard to understand how so much of what we’re asked to regard as ‘history’s first draft’ — journalism, in other words — can be so predictably and remorselessly wrong. “It’s an eclectic ideological movement marked by video game memes, anti-gay, Nick Fuentes white supremacy, irony,” she said. ♦ He dedicated much of his relatively short career to making the world a crueller, more stupid, and more violent place. He inherited a newsroom where a letter of complaint from editorial staffers led in 2020 to the resignation of then-editor Alex Lavelle. If Australia is to avoid the polarisation and — God forbid — the political violence that claimed Charlie Kirk, a good place to start would be to treat the rancid, hate-filled polemics of folks like Cory Alpert with the contempt they deserve.