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Some journalists should play this game.

• ajmurmann 4y ago
  I think it's unfair to expect individual journalists to be able to change this. It's the incentive structure around them that forces this. The game does a good job at expressing this by giving you crickets when you take a photo of another guy in a hat or of people getting along. What's the solution? Who knows...
  • TimedToasts 4y ago
    Well then by all means they should keep doing what they're doing. Just following orders, right? Every snowflake thinks themselves innocent in an avalanche.
    • ajmurmann 4y ago
      It's not orders, it's the incentive structure and maybe some amount of tragedy of the Commons. If you are the head of a publication, you can stop reporting about outlier events and dramatizing them. However, your publication's market share and reach will drop or you'll entirely go out of business. The attention will instead go to publications who do feet the outrage machine. It needs to be solved, but a singel, regular journalist very likely cannot
  • GTP 4y ago
    I get what you're saying, but I'm not referring to all journalists. There are some that still do a decent job at representing the facts, while some others are at the opposite end of the spectrum and seem to only care about making a striking headline or telling a certain group of people what they want to hear. Like when in the game you take a picture of four people where three are mad at each other and the fourth is neutral, and the headline says "Almost everyone hates everyone else!".
• tsol 4y ago
  That won't make them stop wanting to make money.