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The problem is that many are replacing unreliable mass media with even more unreliable facebook and alex jones.
by goodpoint 4y ago
The problem is that many are replacing unreliable mass media with even more unreliable facebook and alex jones.
- etchalon 4y agoNo one trusts the media except for all the media they trust.
- trelane 4y agoYep. I'd really like to see this broken down by vendor. I'm not convinced those trusting Dems are counting Fox News as "the media" for instance.
- deepsquirrelnet 4y ago“The media” has become coded language. People who boast that they don’t trust “the media” usually still trust in bias-confirming media. There are many media outlets that specialize in selling the reality that a large enough population wishes to be true. These are the outlets people who don’t trust “the media” are gravitating to.
- HKH2 4y ago> There are many media outlets that specialize in selling the reality that a large enough population wishes to be true. Which ones don't do that? It's hard to find journalists who are not activists, or at the very least do not toe the line.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
- hnuser847 4y agoThe survey question asks about trust in “mass media,” which most would interpret as corporate media outlets. I doubt survey respondents would consider stuff like AlterNet and The Daily Wire to be “mass media,” even though they report on the news. Here’s the exact survey question: “In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media -- such as newspapers, TV and radio -- when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly -- a great deal, a fair amount, not very much or none at all?” I do think the question should be clarified though.
- hunglee2 4y agoi once thought the same way, but I've since changed my view. The more crap we see / hear, the more we train ourselves on aggregate to be more skeptical of narratives we're fed
- lamename 4y agoThis might be true for you, and hopefully for me, but for the average person I'd bet more money on them just doubling down on <source of confirmation bias> than becoming more skeptical.
- hunglee2 4y agoyes you might be right.
- ManuelKiessling 4y agoSpend only 5 minutes with some of my neighbors, who somehow manage to cram the whole enchilada of how Bill Gates changes our genes through mosquitoes, how the Rotschilds rule the world, how vaccines contain metals, how Hitler was forced to do his thing by the US, how all Jews left Ukraine one week before the war, etc. etc. etc. into that short timeframe — and completely unasked for, of course. They just HAVE to tell it. More skeptical, my ass.
- spacemadness 4y agoI think they gain a semblance of perceived control or perhaps a sense of superiority believing these things. Everyone else is wrong or part of the conspiracy and aren’t they clever for having figured it all out. When I run into folks like this they seem so happy with themselves.
- goodpoint 4y agoIt's usually perceived control + sense of superiority + confirmation of existing bias.
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- daniel-cussen 4y ago