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I had to give up news altogether before I could notice this, but yeah, news exists for the sole purpose of creating outrage in order to generate ad impressions.
by dimal 2y ago
I had to give up news altogether before I could notice this, but yeah, news exists for the sole purpose of creating outrage in order to generate ad impressions. When you get outraged by one story, you’re more likely to click on the next related headline. We’re destroying our society so we can make less than a penny per page.
- bjt 2y agoFor anyone wanting to skip the outrage but still get news and analysis, I can't recommend the PBS News Hour highly enough. Today's episode, for example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/february-5-2025-pbs-news-hour-full-episode https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/february-5-2025-pbs-news-h...
- padolsey 2y ago> news exists for the sole purpose of creating outrage in order to generate ad impressions I like the idea of distinguishing news from journalism. If we say they're distinct, then yeh I think I can agree that news is–via weird unintentional evolution of incentives–an outrage machine, but true journalism is a wondrous and professional exercise of human scrutiny on centres of otherwise unchecked power. We need that.