This was an actual headline in Die Zeit, one of Germany’s biggest newspapers yesterday. No, I did not fake this screenshot. This is why journalism is going down the drain right now. You look at the website of one of the most influential examples of the corporate news media for an analysis of the US presidential election and their take is “fuck”?

These people are doomed. Not only didn’t they see the most likely outcome of the election coming, an outcome that anyone with half a brain and who was paying attention to the situation on the ground could easily have predicted correctly, they then proudly go around displaying their own ignorance to their readers. They fucked up their analysis because they are so far up their own arse that they don’t understand what actual people experience out there and now they proudly announce this to everyone? That’s like a mechanic being proud about not being able to fix your car. “Yeah, can’t do it. Says here in the manual it’s easy to fix, but fuck it, I guess you were meant to buy a new one anyway.”

What really takes the cake is that they expect me to subscribe and pay for the amazing insight that their editors are morons and don’t know what they are doing. Guys, I wouldn’t read your idiotic articles if you paid me! I’m wasn’t surprised by the election result, because unlike you I’m actually in touch with reality. You should be paying me. I’m apparently a better political analyst than the experts you employ.

No wonder these so-called Leitmedien (“leading media”, as we call these guys in Germany) are losing all trust with the public. The only leading they are doing is to lead their readers off the cliffs of self-delusion to smash their heads on the rocks of madness below.