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> There's simply no professional awareness of the unbelievably damaging power of headlines Some would say this is by design and not just on the part of newsmak
by soheil 8y ago
> There's simply no professional awareness of the unbelievably damaging power of headlines
Some would say this is by design and not just on the part of newsmakers but actual politicians on both sides of the spectrum. For the system to work as efficiently as it does a bimodal distribution is probably the best way to achieve that. Every one may be better off at the end thinking both they have a voice, someone taking care of their issues, and elected representatives don't have to struggle to satisfy a never ending range of diversely opinionated electorates.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago"For the system to work as efficiently as it does" I doubt the efficiency of this system. I suggest that the incentives are mostly politically oriented, in the sense that editorial staff truly feel aligned with something they feel important to them, in addition to the 'money' incentive, which is severe in the world of news; they are always going out of business, and in a constant fight for ratings / viewers. There's a very serious and existential push to 'make money or die'. Both of those elements combine to create a market orientation. If you consider news to be simply a product like any other, then you have 'customers' within specific 'demographics' and the editorialists to be 'product managers' with a 'P&L' ... when then they are incented to hustle the kind of information that fires those customers up and gets them clicking. Taking a completely culturally secular view, one could argue the papers are just carving out their customer segments, just as any competing brands would.