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I think this is a great article because it yet again shows how news are only there for terrify and manipulate. Perhaps not always conscious, because they need
by INTPenis 7y ago
I think this is a great article because it yet again shows how news are only there for terrify and manipulate.
Perhaps not always conscious, because they need their jobs and their jobs are to fill a 24 hour cycle with news.
And nobody wants to hear about cancer and heart disease, it bums them out.
- randyrand 7y agonews is mainly for entertainment.
- dylan604 7y agoBut it's not. Sheeple/masses have been trained into that concept, but Edward Murrow is probably rolling in his grave at the fact. Have you spent time with reporters, specifically TV? The real newsies hate doing the fluff stories, or the must carry by their corporate owners. They want to just do the news. Of course, there are the ones that are just hoping to be the next entertainment star as you have accept news programming to be.
- LoSboccacc 7y agowait, no. even at an epistemological level news are data outliers, otherwise they'd be journals while lots of outlets do are manipulative, it's the concept itself of news that shift the reporting bias here.
- itcheeze 7y agoThere is a good book I read about this years ago (pre-9/11) called The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner. It went in depth into the different things that people are afraid of and how they are covered in the media vs what you are actually likely to die from. Definitely made me think a little differently about what I saw on the news for good or bad.