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2 weeks ago I read "Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business" by Neil Postman. It's written in '85 and covers how the emergence
by vbsteven 9y ago
2 weeks ago I read "Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business" by Neil Postman. It's written in '85 and covers how the emergence of print, telegraphy, television (and now the internet and social media) has changed the way we experience and consume news.
"The medium shapes the message" is was it all comes down to. Modern news is show business. It needs to be packaged as show business or nobody will watch/read/listen to it.
As long as the incentive is to generate ad clicks and ad views, news media will prioritize sensational topics and optimize the format for ad delivery instead of optimizing for knowledge retention.
- mar77i 9y agoOrgy porgy is the new Orange. It was just a question of time that the news' focus on the most recent, the most dabbling and the most infuriating will have it basically eradicate itself. I once read a book where a certain Japanese man could swallow his nose. A different page in the book refuted that it was the Japanese man and stated it was instead his brother who could actually do this nose swallowing. Yet another page retold the initial story again, refuting the story around it being his brother. This is just like reading the news or opening the bible on whatever page.