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100 years ago we would have called this yellow journalism. If you want to make a system that is solely on getting eyeballs to look at advertisements the best w

100 years ago we would have called this yellow journalism. If you want to make a system that is solely on getting eyeballs to look at advertisements the best way to do that is controversy. If you really understand social media how to get an advertisement for free on CNN is to say something controversial enough on Twitter that CNN will show a story of it. What we are witnessing is the disruption of original sources of information (TV / Newspapers / Magazines) into a more algorithmic system. A bunch of people do things like "blame the algorithm" but instead you have to consider that it is a cybernetic system with both artificial agents and people interacting with each other and the accountability doesn't disappear at the part of the algorithm the accountability is with the organizations that deploy it.

lordloki 6y ago
We should still call it yellow journalism. The fact that reporters at large media companies will search for outrage on Facebook and Twitter in order to get more hits is a failure of modern journalism. Reporters basing so much of their time on social media skews their objectivity just as much as it would anyone else. It's basically become a feedback loop of anger and it's not contained to twitter and facebook any longer.
- koonsolo 6y ago
  Social media is entertainment. News is entertainment. If you want to get informed, read a book written by an expert or someone with real life experience.
  - kodah 6y ago
    > News is entertainment Maybe that is the case today but I don't really see people around here as the types to let status quos be.
  - 4ggr0 6y ago
    > News is entertainment I'd say it strongly depends on what sites you visit. Boulevard-, sports- and celebrity-news etc. definitely are entertainment. But journals which uncover wrong-doings, research difficult topics, write long articles?
    - koonsolo 6y ago
      If it's written by a journalist, I consider it entertainment. If it's a written interview, I consider it entertainment (it's never written as it was told, ask anyone with experience). When it's really straight out of the mouth or pen of an expert in the field, then yes, it's information.
  - DougN7 6y ago
    Except this “entertainment” is enraging people and causing them to attack the capitol, among other things. It’s much more dangerous than typical entertainment.

lordloki 6y ago

We should still call it yellow journalism. The fact that reporters at large media companies will search for outrage on Facebook and Twitter in order to get more hits is a failure of modern journalism. Reporters basing so much of their time on social media skews their objectivity just as much as it would anyone else. It's basically become a feedback loop of anger and it's not contained to twitter and facebook any longer.

koonsolo 6y ago
Social media is entertainment. News is entertainment. If you want to get informed, read a book written by an expert or someone with real life experience.
- kodah 6y ago
  > News is entertainment Maybe that is the case today but I don't really see people around here as the types to let status quos be.
- 4ggr0 6y ago
  > News is entertainment I'd say it strongly depends on what sites you visit. Boulevard-, sports- and celebrity-news etc. definitely are entertainment. But journals which uncover wrong-doings, research difficult topics, write long articles?
  - koonsolo 6y ago
    If it's written by a journalist, I consider it entertainment. If it's a written interview, I consider it entertainment (it's never written as it was told, ask anyone with experience). When it's really straight out of the mouth or pen of an expert in the field, then yes, it's information.
- DougN7 6y ago
  Except this “entertainment” is enraging people and causing them to attack the capitol, among other things. It’s much more dangerous than typical entertainment.