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In a world where people interact with their friends online more than in meat space, and hardly know their own neighbors at all, local news isn't going to surviv
by zdragnar 3y ago
In a world where people interact with their friends online more than in meat space, and hardly know their own neighbors at all, local news isn't going to survive very well.
This particular strategy has been tried in various forms in various places, and it never works. Any time you see someone say the phrase "doing nothing is not an option", you know that they are making excuses for doing something that has proven, time and again, to be just as effective as doing nothing at all.
- CharlesW 3y ago> In a world where people interact with their friends online more than in meat space, and hardly know their own neighbors at all, local news isn't going to survive very well. Local news is alive and well! It just moved to Facebook, NextDoor, etc.
- tivert 3y ago> Any time you see someone say the phrase "doing nothing is not an option", you know that they are making excuses for doing something that has proven, time and again, to be just as effective as doing nothing at all. No, you're going to far. "Doing nothing is not an option", means "don't wait for a perfect solution." "Doing nothing at all" is rarely "just as effective" as an imperfect solution, at least when it comes to the problem under discussion. It's also worth noting there are frequently people who benefit from certain problems or who are otherwise uninterested in solving them for selfish reasons. Those people really like to push the "do nothing" option.
- zdragnar 3y agoThis has been done before elsewhere, and it was exactly as effective as doing nothing. I'm not much for gambling, but I'd put money on this attempt ending the same way. It's a mindset that is action-biased. Results don't matter, being seen to be doing things is what matters, apparently.