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It makes me wonder how many other markets and industries are out there using the same techniques to bend the public's heart and minds to continue to be a consum
by cmroanirgo 8y ago
It makes me wonder how many other markets and industries are out there using the same techniques to bend the public's heart and minds to continue to be a consumer of 'X'?
Are we at a point that we must be distrustful of everything we read and hear, because we can't trust it? I've seen quite a few articles here on HN on how even scientific reporting is not as rock-solid, A-grade 'truth' as we'd like it to be.
- kstenerud 8y agoYou never could trust it. The only difference now is in the number of actors involved, and their motives for lying to and manipulating you. Other than that, it's the same as it always was.
- Farradfahren 8y agoWell, the journalism abstraction layer was circumvented- you could argue, that attention got cheaper to get without the gatekeeper.
- matis140 8y agoI do not think any of this is an internet age issue. Looking back the tobacco industry was able to suppress research about smoking for a couple decades back when journalism was more trusted and supposedly better vetted for grade a truth. They had lots of advertising targeting children, research about safety, propaganda about benefits of smoking and all presented through mainstream media.