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I think that is not true. People consume "complex" media, series with deep characters and huge arcs, personal and even with whole societys/communities. Journali
by PicassoCTs 5y ago
I think that is not true. People consume "complex" media, series with deep characters and huge arcs, personal and even with whole societys/communities. Journalism is just not willing to go the extra game-of-thrones mile.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoI agree, I think news media is to fixated on generating blocks of text that they can dump on a page or screen somewhere and forget. I would like to see news organizations build tools that help us understand and follow some of the most complex issues in our society. If my local news paper reexamined how they stored and then presented the information they already collect day to day, I would have an essential tool learning about and keeping track of what is going on in the world around me.
- autoexec 5y agoFiction holds people's attention in ways that non-fiction isn't always able to, and that's true more for some people than for others, but works designed specifically to entertain tend to have wider appeal than works designed primarily to inform. Journalists have increasingly tried to present information as entertainment often at the expense of their own message and integrity. I'm not sure more infotainment is the solution.