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This gets to the heart of the problem and is even understated. If your audience is partisan, going against what they want to hear by providing nuance, context,
by Mattasher 4y ago
This gets to the heart of the problem and is even understated. If your audience is partisan, going against what they want to hear by providing nuance, context, or even straight news, can provoke extreme outrage. Perhaps people will recall when the NYT had to change a factually correct headline because it wasn't sufficiently critical of the previous president.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoAnd good luck fitting nuance and context into ~~140~~ 280 characters !
- ChainOfFools 4y agocompression and curation are the parents of persuasion
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThat's a very good point - I feel very uncomfortable on Twitter even today, but I can see how a "words first" education would make it easier to cope with. It doesn't remove the issue though, since the space is so limited - IMHO Twitter is instead a much more fitting space for poets...