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I think the mainstream media is using this to support their own delusions. It is because of the drop in credibility of mainstream media that people have begun

by msravi 10y ago

I think the mainstream media is using this to support their own delusions. It is because of the drop in credibility of mainstream media that people have begun believing in unverified sources. It is because of the blatant and obvious bias and hypocrisy in mainstream media that people seek other sources to support their own biases. If the mainstream media were to be more honest and unbiased in their reporting and did not try to massage delivery to suit a narrative, the fake news out there wouldn't have that many takers. As it stands today, people place as much credibility in a CNN or nytimes piece as they do in a whatsapp forward or tweet.

danso 10y ago
That's a romanticized view of the way the world works, or how people make choices. When music sales started falling precipitously around the rise of the MP3 player, was it because music became measurably worse? When artists started making money from digital downloads, was it because they just started making better music? Or because iTunes/etc vastly improved the digital download purchasing process? Most big cities had morning and afternoon newspapers. Now there are only morning newspapers. Is it because afternoon newspapers just happened to be shittier than their morning competitors in every city in America? Or because the advent of radio and TV news changed the timing of how we get daily news?
- msravi 10y ago
  Notice that I didn't say "newspaper" or "tv"? It isn't about the medium - mainstream (established) media is as much on social media as other news websites that may or may not be fake. It's the credibility that has been lost and a huge advantage that they had coming in that has been squandered.
dplgk 10y ago
You might have a point if the sample group here weren't people that watch Fox News. Instead, they are questioning one of the most respected newspapers in the world while still eating up talking points from Rush Limbaugh.

by msravi 10y ago

danso 10y ago

That's a romanticized view of the way the world works, or how people make choices. When music sales started falling precipitously around the rise of the MP3 player, was it because music became measurably worse? When artists started making money from digital downloads, was it because they just started making better music? Or because iTunes/etc vastly improved the digital download purchasing process? Most big cities had morning and afternoon newspapers. Now there are only morning newspapers. Is it because afternoon newspapers just happened to be shittier than their morning competitors in every city in America? Or because the advent of radio and TV news changed the timing of how we get daily news?

msravi 10y ago
Notice that I didn't say "newspaper" or "tv"? It isn't about the medium - mainstream (established) media is as much on social media as other news websites that may or may not be fake. It's the credibility that has been lost and a huge advantage that they had coming in that has been squandered.

dplgk 10y ago

You might have a point if the sample group here weren't people that watch Fox News. Instead, they are questioning one of the most respected newspapers in the world while still eating up talking points from Rush Limbaugh.