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Yes, but generally it's not journalists and reporters pushing the talking points, but the talk show hosts and bloggers. Journalism and infotainment, despite bei
by mtberatwork 10y ago
Yes, but generally it's not journalists and reporters pushing the talking points, but the talk show hosts and bloggers. Journalism and infotainment, despite being deceptively blurred, are two very different things once you look past the charade.
- Taek 10y agoIf telling the truth was good for profitability, we'd see more of it. Confirming what people already suspect is how you get viewers, it's an uphill battle to tell someone something that will cause cognitive dissonance.
- kordless 10y ago"Truth" is a slippery thing. Keep in mind you can't create dissonance in someone. Only they can do that, given it's an internal conflict of two opposing truths. You can, however, introduce a thought process that breaks dissonance by double binding them. Making someone choose between two undesirable options is a sure way to get rid of one of the "truths", leaving the one that best suits moving forward. People in dissonance will attempt to spread the dissonance and will resist any attempts to break it. I've seen people bounce between two opposing beliefs in a matter of seconds and rationalize the whole thing as if it made perfect sense. The only way to "fix" this behavior in someone is to double bind them and then let it be - walk away from the dissonance least it spread to you. Pushing too hard on the dissonance will cause it to blame you directly for calling attention to it.