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This is my biggest fear about the media. If they don't come clean and reclaim their integrity (this goes for both left and right outlets), the public will rejec
by nexthash 6y ago
This is my biggest fear about the media. If they don't come clean and reclaim their integrity (this goes for both left and right outlets), the public will reject them. Discourse will move to blogs, podcasts, private networks, etc. In the process, the laws and protections for journalism will be weathered and may be abolished altogether (who needs those pompous journalists, right?). Then we'll be no better than a propaganda state, where you can be jailed or sued for publishing a perspective that offends or exposes someone.
This is obviously a worst-case scenario, but I think that to prevent anything similar from happening Americans need to step up and pressure their news outlets to do better, and for social media platforms to be choked with regulation until they start preventing manipulative shit from spreading.
- rorykoehler 6y agoIt's already too late.
- rubicon33 6y agoThis has already happened.
- jtvjan 6y agoIn the first paragraph, you argue for freedom of expression. Then, at the end of the second paragraph, you call for regulation against it. Huh?!
- coldtea 6y agoMany want "freedom of expression" only for arbiters of correct expression (the one they agree with)...
- Pyramus 6y agoHow is that a contradiction? Unless some right is absolute it will always be relative to the rights of others. The questions is where to set the limits exactly and misinformation is indeed a grey area. Hence the discussion.
- loveistheanswer 6y ago>social media platforms to be choked with regulation until they start preventing manipulative shit from spreading. Manipulation is an unsolved human problem as old as humanity. The core business model of social media is fundamentally based on manipulation. Asking social media corporations to protect us from manipulation is salmon asking grizzly bears to protect them from getting eaten. It's contrary to their fundamental nature.