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The internet happened. Now we have access to not just what the elites think (via the mainstream press), but also also what they miss or misrepresent. The exposu

The internet happened. Now we have access to not just what the elites think (via the mainstream press), but also also what they miss or misrepresent. The exposure to many other plausible narratives mean that the mainstream media will never be the same again - most people now understand the news is not concerned with just objectivity or truth, but with narrative (even if journalists conflate the two). I don’t think you can ever rewind back on the internet and information explosion. The animal has tasted blood, and it wants more. Trump shouldn’t be given so much credit for the present moment. It should instead go to the iPhone, twitter, Reddit, Facebook, 4chan, blogs - the internet fire hose. And it’s not just the United States, it’s happening all over the world.

hot_gril 4y ago
I've started paying attention to how many news articles are essentially collections of Twitter screenshots. Which is still valuable, given how annoying Twitter is to navigate and how some may be deleted.
- deltree7 4y ago
  Except they also cherry-pick the Tweets. E.g: "X heavily criticized for Y action" Supporting Tweet screenshots : 1 like, 4 likes ....
  - hot_gril 4y ago
    Yeah, I remember one article (I think on Fox) whose entire source was a tweet from a random guy with 2 followers.
manuelabeledo 4y ago
> Now we have access to not just what the elites think (via the mainstream press), but also also what they miss or misrepresent. ... Sprinkled with a lot of bs on top. Let's be frank here: the Internet, as we currently use it, gives voice to _everyone_, regardless of the accuracy of the information, and while I agree that the upside is that we do have access to more information, it has not significantly changed the quality of it.