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The press and the rest of the chattering industry is so full of shit that it's amazing they can taste anything. Today doesn't matter. Tomorrow is what matters.
by manv1 4y ago
The press and the rest of the chattering industry is so full of shit that it's amazing they can taste anything.
Today doesn't matter. Tomorrow is what matters. If you read the press Apple would be in bankruptcy, Intel would be unstoppable, and Nokia would rule the mobile world.
It's fun to read, but really, the chattering classes are full of myopic insta-pundits who can be safely ignored.
- 0xbadc0de5 4y agoI find that a lot of what I read coming out of modern journalism is indistinguishable from what one would expect a GPT-3 language model only trained on, say, the top 50 editorial news sites would produce. As opposed to an actual human performing deep research on a subject and distilling key points into a coherent precis, sans opinion.
- bobthepanda 4y agoOnline ads killed the budget for the newsroom, and the type of content you’re describing has always been the most expensive to produce.
- usernomdeguerre 4y agoDoes "the chattering class" include you as well?
- joenot443 4y agoI assume by 'the chattering class', they meant people who are paid to churn out articles like this. We're complainer class, the ones who complain about them in the comments :)
- colpabar 4y agoGenuine question/request: how do you stay informed about the world? I agree with you but I still want to know what’s going on and I find it very difficult.
- rapsey 4y agoNot OP but I use podcasts, books and following intelligent people (not from the media) on twitter.
- vasco 4y agoAlso genuine question, why do you need to be informed about the world?
- nine_k 4y agoSometimes it directly affects you. You benefit from being informed about stuff occurring near you, in your country, likely about the largest trade partners of your country. Possibly you're not very interested in what happens in Botswana or Peru, and Western media cover these places scarcely. But maybe news about China are important for you in most of the world, or news about Russia are important for you if you're in Europe and depend on Russian gas, and generally don't like warfare near you. Etc.
- vasco 4y agoIt affecting me doesn't mean I need to know why. If a serious earthquake happens it also affects me a lot and there's no way to get news about it in advance. The only reason you feel like you have to follow the news is because you can, but at the cost of what? I have several examples of major world events I didn't know about for many weeks or months until it came up in conversation and I've never felt it affected me in a negative way, meanwhile I get time for long walks with my dog.
- xwowsersx 4y agoRight. And the chattering classes spend such a disproportionate amount of time on Twitter (like some of the journo and other intellection/writerly types spend all day on it) that the things they tend to say and think about it are typically very much exaggerative and divorced from reality.