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The words you’re repeating belie the problem. Journalism was more of a profession, there were editorial best practices and more factual accuracy. TV media was
by Spooky23 2y ago
The words you’re repeating belie the problem.
Journalism was more of a profession, there were editorial best practices and more factual accuracy. TV media was a loss leader. Social media is a dick measuring contest. Popularity correlates with volume, so the incentive is to shout whatever will get a reaction.
So low-information consumers are spinning about how the government is both completely incompetent, yet capable of using some magic to create hurricanes for some reason. That’s a feature of social media.
- mc32 2y agoPerhaps... to some degree they stuck to facts, but they chose what to talk about and what facts to bring up, but let's say they were even handed... They are not today and they compete with your homebound keyboard warrior when it comes to making stuff up, except they have the imprimatur of being the legacy media and people give them unearned gravitas.