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> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed
by mrfusion 4y ago
> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc.
If authorities were never “undermined” you would still be drinking cocaine, giving your kids cough syrup laced with heroin, spraying people with DDT, and also smoking the cigarette brand your doctor recommended.
- ceejayoz 4y agoHuh? The authorities are the ones who stopped each of those. With regulation.
- ekianjo 4y agoLol they fought tooth and nail against any change for a long time. Look at oxycontin in the US and how the FDA was complicit for like 20 years.
- themitigating 4y agoBecause the public was informed by the news. However, now that some are demonizing the the media or "The Main Stream Media" people trust it less. This was properly done to prevent the public from being informed about bad actors.
- samstave 4y ago>the public was informed by the news --- inform (v.) early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and directly from Latin informare "to shape, give form to, delineate," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form" (see form (n.)). In early use also enform until c. 1600. Sense of "report facts or news, communicate information to" first recorded late 14c. Related: Informed; informing.
- themitigating 4y agoCan you please state your argument along with pasting the definition? I dont
- themitigating 4y agoCan you please state your argument along with pasting the definition?
- breakfastduck 4y agoIf you're taking literally the most surface level view possible, then sure. But it doesn't at all reflect the actual realities of what led up to that happening.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoThis might be confusion over the word “authority,” with one including journalists and the other not.
- suction 4y agoBut what if authorities would never have been believed? If everyone just dumped their trash into the countryside, drove 120 mph in cities, gave a damn about building codes or safety measures?
- onion2k 4y agoIf authorities were never “undermined” you would still be drinking cocaine, giving your kids cough syrup laced with heroin, spraying people with DDT, and also smoking the cigarette brand your doctor recommended. But what would the downsides be?