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All the more reason to remove barriers to access of real news.

• intended 8y ago
  This worsens the problem by assuming that lack of “news” is the problem. Historically news media was already in trouble because of the news cycle. News had to bleed to get advertising to survive. Underlying that was the limited short term attention span of our species. As long as there is only limited mental space for ideas, a fierce competition must exist to take up that space. And to win, ideas that engage our hindbrain win. Sex sells, if it bleeds it leads. Tribalism. This was the case before the internet. The internet through this into over drive. Now we can’t even keep up. More content? People are already saturated. There are hundreds of Indian news channels. But there’s only a few formats. A few talking heads yelling about the same issues and pandering to emotions. A model learnt around the world. —————- Don’t think that There’s things such as real news - sadly today it’s just “content.” Look at what happens when day - ravish Kumar, makes a great show. He loses. Because Arnab Goswami with his theatrics and fake screaming is more enaging. Facts don’t win hearts and advertising time. Most people don’t read articles before responding on social media. They read headlines. Discussing news is discussing a battle already lost. And if this sounds bleak - It’s actually hard to encapsulate how truly hopeless the current scenario seems to be.