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In a democracy, the news is supposed to be the channel of information by which the populace is able to supervise the government. Perhaps it is my advancing age
by jacknobody 4y ago
In a democracy, the news is supposed to be the channel of information by which the populace is able to supervise the government.
Perhaps it is my advancing age that makes me wonder how such an important function can be thought of in parallel with social media.
- throwayyy479087 4y agoIt works well during Republican administrations. Twitter, Reddit etc are very good watchdogs of R malfeasance, and don’t let scandals disappear quickly. The issues appear with Democrat admins - as you can see with the last week’s revelations from Bari Weiss.
- logicalmonster 4y ago> Twitter, Reddit etc are very good watchdogs of R malfeasance, In theory, that's true, but in practice, I see them as the Boy Who Cried Wolf. If you treat literally everything as the world's biggest scandal, you're going to be ignored or drowned out if you actually do find a dangerous scandal because there's literally zero shift in tone.
- kashunstva 4y ago> you're going to be ignored or drowned out if you actually do find a dangerous scandal because there's literally zero shift in tone And consequently political figures will respond to the muted effect of this stimulus by up-regulating their performative, attention-seeking discourse.