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> a company attempting to promote enough general anxiety in their users to drive them into the profit funnel Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the

> a company attempting to promote enough general anxiety in their users to drive them into the profit funnel Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Their modern day business model seems to be overwhelming people with fear/anger porn to keep them agitated and coming back as often as possible for more.

woodruffw 4y ago
> Their modern day business model seems to be overwhelming people with fear/anger porn to keep them agitated and coming back as often as possible for more. This is the single most common critique levied against mass media, especially 24h media. You can probably safely assume that everybody in this conversation recognizes it as a problem, rather than using it as cover for another bad thing.
- sneak 4y ago
  Thanks to our broken incentive systems for mass media, public trust in strangers and society is at record lows, and most people think violent crime has gone up when in reality it is at multi-decade record lows (the spike the last 24 months from covid notwithstanding). Gun violence, for example, has been decreasing for decades. Watch the news and you'd think there's a "gun violence epidemic". It's more profitable to peddle panic than the true framing of our reality.
Yoric 4y ago
> Their modern day business model seems to be overwhelming people with fear/anger porn to keep them agitated and coming back as often as possible for more. Not the GP, but I agree that this is a huge problem. One of the reasons for which I've stopped watching TV a long time ago.
troutwine 4y ago
> Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Absolutely. Loudly.
klyrs 4y ago
> Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Yes, a hundred times over. Everything from Fox News blowing petty crime out of proportion to copaganda shows like Law&Order normalizing torture as an effective interrogation technique. https://www.vox.com/culture/22375412/police-show-procedurals-hollywood-history-dragnet-keystone-cops-brooklyn-nine-nine-wire-blue-bloods https://www.vox.com/culture/22375412/police-show-procedurals...
- jmalicki 4y ago
  Your link doesn't mention the show "Law and Order" (only uses the works to describe the concept) - which episodes normalize torture?
roywiggins 4y ago
Yes, obviously. Citizen has just taken the worst parts of local TV news and turned it into an entire business.

woodruffw 4y ago

> Their modern day business model seems to be overwhelming people with fear/anger porn to keep them agitated and coming back as often as possible for more. This is the single most common critique levied against mass media, especially 24h media. You can probably safely assume that everybody in this conversation recognizes it as a problem, rather than using it as cover for another bad thing.

sneak 4y ago
Thanks to our broken incentive systems for mass media, public trust in strangers and society is at record lows, and most people think violent crime has gone up when in reality it is at multi-decade record lows (the spike the last 24 months from covid notwithstanding). Gun violence, for example, has been decreasing for decades. Watch the news and you'd think there's a "gun violence epidemic". It's more profitable to peddle panic than the true framing of our reality.

Yoric 4y ago

> Their modern day business model seems to be overwhelming people with fear/anger porn to keep them agitated and coming back as often as possible for more. Not the GP, but I agree that this is a huge problem. One of the reasons for which I've stopped watching TV a long time ago.

troutwine 4y ago

> Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Absolutely. Loudly.

klyrs 4y ago

> Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Yes, a hundred times over. Everything from Fox News blowing petty crime out of proportion to copaganda shows like Law&Order normalizing torture as an effective interrogation technique. https://www.vox.com/culture/22375412/police-show-procedurals-hollywood-history-dragnet-keystone-cops-brooklyn-nine-nine-wire-blue-bloods https://www.vox.com/culture/22375412/police-show-procedurals...

jmalicki 4y ago
Your link doesn't mention the show "Law and Order" (only uses the works to describe the concept) - which episodes normalize torture?

roywiggins 4y ago

Yes, obviously. Citizen has just taken the worst parts of local TV news and turned it into an entire business.