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Agreed on all counts. I also wish YC gave more details about what they mean when they talk about improving society. What's the metric? I'm not really sure abo
by davidivadavid 10y ago
Agreed on all counts.
I also wish YC gave more details about what they mean when they talk about improving society. What's the metric?
I'm not really sure about the relevance of the concept of "mass media" today when people get their news from more and more fragmented sources.
And the idea that the polarization of media is bad also seems highly questionable. In fact, one of the leading researchers on the question of media bias showed that competition between media (which leads to polarization) could reduce bias (http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/BiasReputation.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/BiasReputation.pd...).