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That's the point of the "crying wolf" story: the boy cried wolf so many times, that when a wolf (emergency) actually appeared, the townsfolk response was not ap
by daenz 5y ago
That's the point of the "crying wolf" story: the boy cried wolf so many times, that when a wolf (emergency) actually appeared, the townsfolk response was not appropriate. That's the risk you run when every story is hyped up for maximum engagement.
- pixl97 5y agoThen you go about banning commercial news. Short of that don't expect anything to change. The risk the for profit news station runs by not hyping everything to the max is loss of profit. In the meantime there are many things in this world that have the potential to become very dangerous, but because people notice and do something about that, said terrible event doesn't happen.
- sjg007 5y agoThere are just active disinformation campaigns all over the place to do that. They want to overload our cognitive capacities to reason and find middle ground.