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> Ultimately the problem is that it isn't that we have illegitimate news flooding the market of information it's that we are finally starting to realize almost
by eightysixfour 6y ago
> Ultimately the problem is that it isn't that we have illegitimate news flooding the market of information it's that we are finally starting to realize almost all of our information was biased to one degree or another and we are slow to adjust the way we consume information.
Why not both...?
> isn't that we have illegitimate news flooding the market of information
This is absolutely a problem. Old media seems to be pretty content with narrative framing for the most part, this new brand of illegitimate media just makes shit up. They have no intent to engage in the public discourse, their only purpose is to reinforce alternate realities and to shift the Overton window.
- pessimizer 6y agoOld media also sometimes just makes things up, but usually they uncritically pass on things that anonymous administration officials and intelligence agencies just make up. The real way to distinguish mainstream news outlets from less mainstream news outlets is that mainstream outlets have cultivated relationships with administration and intelligence officials, relationships that are maintained by those outlets' willingness to publish whatever those officials want to publicize. It's almost the only criterion. "Mainstream" outlets will have a lot of inside information that will later turn out to be true, but will also constantly publish completely false stories on the behalf of government officials "leaking" as part of their jobs, and conceal their origin.