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> Glance at the news, fill in your own list That's the point of "the news" though: to keep you engaged by providing a daily crisis for you to worry about, beca
by luckylion 6y ago
> Glance at the news, fill in your own list
That's the point of "the news" though: to keep you engaged by providing a daily crisis for you to worry about, because that makes you watch thew news. If one crisis goes away, or viewers get bored of it, a new one pops up and the old one is gone. Remember how we were supposedly "this close" to ww3 in February or March because of Iran?
Monster Of The Week Shows need monsters or they lose their audience.
- throwanem 6y agoThat there exists an industry whose stock in trade is making every problem look like the end of the world, doesn't mean no problems exist.
- MauranKilom 6y agoI remember times when the big news were about some celebrity doing something dumb, some sports club doing something exciting, the oil price going up or down or some proposed law being contentious. [Note: This is outside the US.] It could just be me growing older and/or the news that I'm consuming becoming more globally focused. But are you really suggesting that 20 years ago we had issues comparable to the US giving up on pandemic response, to BLM, to impending climate catastrophe and rising fascism everywhere in the world? Just that the headlines in the news always have the same font size doesn't mean that the news is always equally dramatic. This goes both ways.