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No, mass and social media stopped paying attention days ago because Trump or Hawai'i or whatever. In a few years some might have a flashback, Google "what happe
by morelisp 3y ago
No, mass and social media stopped paying attention days ago because Trump or Hawai'i or whatever. In a few years some might have a flashback, Google "what happened stupor conduct", and after a few sentences conclude science isn't really worth paying attention to after all.
- Dylan16807 3y agoStopping paying attention in the sense of "waiting for news" sense, sure.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoI would charitabily read the parent's comment as referring to the middle brow 'mass media' aimed at those moderately above average in terms of paying attention to these topics. It overlaps with a sizable majority of the HN readerbase. Not the mass media of grocery store checkout aisle magazines.
- morelisp 3y agoWe have wildly diverging views of the average HNer. I'm thinking the median is much closer to "Russian catgirl home-cook on X" than "studious reader of The Atlantic".