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“If people didn’t see manipulative social media posts, they’d go back to believing our manipulative mass media broadcasts.” There is really no way out of this.
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
“If people didn’t see manipulative social media posts, they’d go back to believing our manipulative mass media broadcasts.”
There is really no way out of this. The age of information being dictated from a handful of corporations in New York is over.
- slothtrop 5y agoAt least the latter manipulative broadcasts have a vetting process to root them in some semblance of reality. Then you can rummage among various ones to see truth hidden in plain sight.
- ceilingcorner 5y agoLike the reality of WMDs in Iraq?
- slothtrop 5y agoThat lie came from Colin Powell and the Bush administration, it wasn't manufactured by the media itself.
- ceilingcorner 5y agoThe parent comment was about vetting information. Clearly the media didn’t do that WRT the WMDs.
- slothtrop 5y agoIt was as "vetted" as could be at the time. They just reported the government's messaging. And when that turned out to be a lie, they reported this as well.
- joe_the_user 5y agoBut the fight is for the uncritical consumer who isn't going to look beyond the substance. The web overall also provides a vast amount of information that's useful to those who critically sift it even it is arguably harmful to those who uncritically swallow it. Moreover, the vetting process is an extra added because of mass media's monopoly position - part of "journalist quality" generally. And this has been declining for a while. Partly 'cause of competition from the web but also because of a generally more competitive environment. Which is to say, we're not going back to the old situation regardless so we may as well appreciate the benefits and drawbacks of each era.