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While there is a lot of fault on the "traditional press"(1) for the current situation it's not that simple. (1): I'm speaking from a German POV and as such abo
by dathinab 5y ago
While there is a lot of fault on the "traditional press"(1) for the current situation it's not that simple.
(1): I'm speaking from a German POV and as such about German press, but it probably applies to many other countries, too.
In my experience the "small but of truth" somewhere hidden in there is not just often quite distorted, the consequences /lesson people are made to believe this has/should have is often inanely distorted. Very often by using clever subtile manipulative layering of various conspiracy theories, lies, distortions etc.
So the moment you say "of point A in way A is actually true", a lot of people will interpret it a "point W,X,Y are true in way Z" where both the truth and interpretation they take from your statement have little to nothing to do with your statement at all.
So acknowledging some truth hidden in some conspiracy theory can easily become quite dangerous. I have seen cases of this in my environment.
What we are missing is I think proper purely objective and exploratory non linear press content and especially "scientific communication" (not sure how to translate it, basically science press for non science people).
But it's hard to start it now, and if we do we need to be very careful.
Because we life in a messed up world, and I fare if we go from 0 to 100% objective truth about everything a lot of people would either claim it's conspiracy or totally end if entangled in conspiracy theories.
I mean just confront ~60y people with climate change and/or environmental damage facts and see how many accept them and how many try to find all kind of excuses labeling thinks as being exaggerating or out right a conspiracy theory because they can't accept that their generation has majorly fucked up. Similar topic confronting ~60y old people with cooperate corruption in Germany.