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'shaping the cognitive environment' is what the business of news is generally all about. As information consumers, we have little choice other than trepidatiou
by hunglee2 3y ago
'shaping the cognitive environment' is what the business of news is generally all about.
As information consumers, we have little choice other than trepidatiously pick our way through the narratives supplied to us as best we can. If we end up settling on a heightened level of skepticism to all 'produced information', irrespective of source, then we might be satisfied as to our progress.
- Phileosopher 3y agoI have a simple flow of though, how I see it: 1. ALL information is biased: there's no way to remove that part entirely because human beings make everything news-related. 2. The motivations of the journalists determine what the news reveals or hides[0]. 3. To that end, all mainstream journalism (excepting journalists directly funded by listeners) is about as accurate as an advertisement. 4. Consume with a general distrust, assume everyone else is doing the same (since most people are NOT indoctrinated into the mediafest), and go about the rest of your life. 5. If you ever start getting a bad case of anxiety or the shakes, go outside for a walk or strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. I wrote an essay on the subject[1], but the gist of it is to learn the art of skepticism, on EVERYTHING. [0] https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mains... [1]https://notageni.us/information/ https://notageni.us/information/