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Recommend - Niall Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower about how the same networks exist in all communities - science, business, politics etc etc. As to th
by op03 6y ago
Recommend - Niall Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower about how the same networks exist in all communities - science, business, politics etc etc.
As to the journos, human behavior doesn't change so easily by just showing people their issues.
In fact if they feel judged too much, they can get more defensive about their behavior or aggressively attack those pointing at it. The fact that analysis of behavior happens publicly, makes unproductive outcomes even more likely. It just creates spiraling reaction counter-reaction cycles.
You can see how well the approach has worked with changing Trump's behavior, even though there are huge armies of people pointing out and documenting his issues day and night seemingly without any awareness that all that work has not changed outcomes.
Plus expecting behavior change on top of a social media architecture skewed to self promotion and engagement is unrealistic.
So cut the journos some slack. The possible solutions are half baked or constrained by the operating environment, with barely any examples of solutions that have produce good outcomes.
- rsynnott 6y ago> You can see how well the approach has worked with changing Trump's behavior, even though there are huge armies of people pointing out and documenting his issues day and night seemingly without any awareness that all that work has not changed outcomes. Trump is arguably the exception, in that he either doesn't care about re-election or (more likely) at some level misunderstands exactly why he won on the first place. Public opinion often does have a significant impact on government policy, though, especially in parliamentary democracies (where it's easier to u-turn without showing that much weakness by simply sacrificing a minister).