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What we call “engagement metrics” on the internet is called “ratings” in the TV world. One network in particular discovered the way to maximize their ratings d
by jandrese 6y ago
What we call “engagement metrics” on the internet is called “ratings” in the TV world. One network in particular discovered the way to maximize their ratings decades ago and has been at the top of the ratings ever since.
The problems we have with social media are the same we’ve had with Fox News and AM talk radio for decades, but now people want to fight it because the social media companies started banning their worst offenders.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoOutrage sold stacks of newspapers long before TV was invented. The term "Yellow Journalism" was coined with shady stories in WR Hearst newspapers. Probably caused the Spanish-American War, outrage over Fatty Arbuckle, Sacco & Vanzetti, the Red Scare of the 1920s, etc.