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The consumption has shifted from plain old media TV, Radio and News papers towards online social media with news feeds and blogs. Somehow along the way critical
by acd 10y ago
The consumption has shifted from plain old media TV, Radio and News papers towards online social media with news feeds and blogs. Somehow along the way critical qualitative journalism was lost. There is probably a democratic issue there. Its noisy out there.
Just because it looks like a news site does not mean it is serious with deep journalism behind it.
How do we make sure we consume news from good sources?
- d0mine 10y agoIt is worse than that. The disinformation is not accidental and it is not new (it always dominated the traditional media it was just less prominent in the social media). Ask yourself "who benefits" from a particular spin or a narrative you see in the news online. Who benefits from the climate change denial? Who benefits from the war with Iraq (or with other "Evil Enemy du Jour")? Who benefits from religious conflicts, immigration crisis? Who benefits from the existence of "too big to fail" financial institution? ...