That ("strawman") was my first reaction. Then on thinking about it some more, I realized that maybe a lot of folks ("journalists" as I put it) actually DO think you can just read, especially with the pandemic and the internet. Isn't everything on the web nowadays?
No it's not. So maybe this is a worthwhile article after all.
> No it's not. So maybe this is a worthwhile article after all.
Shit, not even all written material is on the web. Nowhere close! Records and books alike. It's typical to hit a wall when researching on the web, beyond which one cannot progress without actual, paper books, or a visit to some particular physical institution or library, often only one step past Wikipedia's reference list for a topic, to give a sense of how shallow the Web's coverage of many topics is. Sometimes, even those first-tier references are only available on paper, without so much as an e-book available.
No it's not. So maybe this is a worthwhile article after all.