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Most of these comments seem to conclude it is biased media that has lost trust, but I think that’s gaslighting by media & politics. I have lost trust in all me

Most of these comments seem to conclude it is biased media that has lost trust, but I think that’s gaslighting by media & politics. I have lost trust in all media. I did a simple exercise on Google News, I blocked a media source if: 1. The title was clickbait 2. The reported story turned out later the be false 3. There was no actual “news” (i.e. something happened and verifiable facts about it were reported) In 6 months I had blocked every news source provided. Media is a gimmick for attention, with a veneer of a cause (whatever your cause of choice is). What’s worse, there is a shared bias about the world within the writer class. Having known the truth of more than a few reported stories by reputable journalist, I was stunned how often what was written had no grounded whatsoever in what actually happened. It was simply an anthology of opinions by people with the credentials to give a viewpoint on a topic they had no personal insight into. Now that I’ve eliminated media from my diet, I spend far more time investigating and learning. Just like junk food takes the place of nutrition without providing it, media is narrative without instruction. This wasn’t always the case. Look at newspaper articles from the 1920s. They are basically Wikipedia articles as told by a friend. I’m shocked how many otherwise intelligent and well-educated people truly feel they “won’t know what’s going on in the world” without media. Fact check even two or three stories with experts from your personal network. You’ll learn quickly that media isn’t solving that problem and doesn’t deserve the job.

petre 3y ago
People concerned with the "news" should read this[1]. By a a playwright and poet who's also a journalist[2] that works at RFI. He wrote a satiric novel about an underground race of rats conspiring with world governments to keep people busy consuming "news" in order to exhaust them and prevent disruption through social movements. It's called the "Preventive disorder". Sadly there's no English or French edition. Excerpt: "The deadlock of the global society involves world’s radical restructuring based on the control of information, as well as on a systematic maintenance of a “preventive disorder” – which is actually the title of the manifest-novel, written in a journalistic style, about the mediatic order of today –equivalent, in the vision of the writer-journalist Vişniec, with the instauration of a new religion." 1. https://www.ijcr.eu/articole/116_Pagini%2053-59%20Prus%20IJCR%201-2013.pdf 2. https://www.visniec.com
snowwrestler 3y ago
#2 is pretty silly because to avoid occasionally reporting things that aren’t true, media organizations would have to be omniscient. “No news service gets everything right 100% of the time” is pretty shallow criticism. Who does?

petre 3y ago

People concerned with the "news" should read this[1]. By a a playwright and poet who's also a journalist[2] that works at RFI. He wrote a satiric novel about an underground race of rats conspiring with world governments to keep people busy consuming "news" in order to exhaust them and prevent disruption through social movements. It's called the "Preventive disorder". Sadly there's no English or French edition. Excerpt: "The deadlock of the global society involves world’s radical restructuring based on the control of information, as well as on a systematic maintenance of a “preventive disorder” – which is actually the title of the manifest-novel, written in a journalistic style, about the mediatic order of today –equivalent, in the vision of the writer-journalist Vişniec, with the instauration of a new religion." 1. https://www.ijcr.eu/articole/116_Pagini%2053-59%20Prus%20IJCR%201-2013.pdf 2. https://www.visniec.com

snowwrestler 3y ago

#2 is pretty silly because to avoid occasionally reporting things that aren’t true, media organizations would have to be omniscient. “No news service gets everything right 100% of the time” is pretty shallow criticism. Who does?