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> 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. Thi
by 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 agoThanks 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.