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by graycat 6y ago
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- alasdair_ 6y ago>For SCOTUS rulings and the law more generally, there is an "enforcement mechanism": Bring a legal case. Who would hear a legal case against the SCOTUS?
- usefulcat 6y agoEven if you could somehow “fix” the press, you’d still be left with the problem of individuals favoring those elements of the press that reinforce their existing beliefs. It’s not a lack of information that’s the problem; the problem is that people self-select news sources that reinforce their existing beliefs. In fact one could argue that the present abundance of “information” is a primary enabler of such bubbles.
- graycat 6y agodeleted
- alasdair_ 6y ago>long ago I concluded that quite broadly, astoundingly, that the media doesn't know how to draw a graph! I'm almost certain most people doing these graphics know exactly how to draw a graph, it's just that their audience has made it clear that they like incorrect graphs, so long as they reinforce existing beliefs. Someone, somewhere, has almost certainly done an A/B test of "correct graph" versus "misleading graph" and learned that the latter produces more clicks, shares and revenue.
- graycat 6y agodeleted