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"For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. That has not been the case." It clearly has. Had it not
by boona 10y ago
"For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. That has not been the case."
It clearly has. Had it not been for Wikileaks, and various online news organizations we would never have known the sheer amount of corruption afoot in this election, as well as the extent of the death grip political elites have on the entire system. I suppose old media has just become too entrenched and cozy with those in power to speak truth to power.
"a recent BuzzFeed analysis of top political pages on Facebook showed that right-wing sites published false or misleading information 38 percent of the time, and lefty sites did so 20 percent of the time."
In a recent analysis by the ultra-leftist junk news site Buzzfeed, they've found that right wing sites are worst than left wing sites. Wow, that's some great journalism right there. That kind of reporting is why we should ignore new media and stick with the old.
- existencebox 10y agoI was with you until the end. "Stick with the old?" Would you really cite CNN, Fox, NBC and pals as unbiased reporting? From where I'm standing the playing field and the game is almost unchanged, the players are just often different. (You even seem to somewhat contradict yourself, acknowledging that the old news is very establishment-cozy, which to me would beg the sort of skewing you cite for new-news)
- ryanx435 10y agofyi: he was being sarcastic
- existencebox 10y agoI will leave my comment unedited to show the shame of my admission that I had entirely no clue. I normally find myself chuckling at when other people miss sarcasm but I really didn't catch the tone this time, hope someone else gets to chuckle at me :P
- pjc50 10y agoPoe's law: how can you tell?
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- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>It clearly has. Had it not been for Wikileaks, and various online news organizations we would never have known the sheer amount of corruption afoot in this election, as well as the extent of the death grip political elites have on the entire system. I suppose old media has just become too entrenched and cozy with those in power to speak truth to power. Also, ownership has become ultra-concentrated among the "old media". There'd be more of a case in its favor if old media actually competed with each-other in a diverse marketplace anymore.
- Goronmon 10y agoIn a recent analysis by the ultra-leftist junk news site Buzzfeed, they've found that right wing sites are worst than left wing sites. Wow, that's some great journalism right there. That kind of reporting is why we should ignore new media and stick with the old. Definitely agreed. People just need to learn to only visit news sites that carefully align with their own personal biases. That's what makes the Internet nowadays so great. It's much easier to ignore people ignorant enough to disagree with you.