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This is one I find less than surprising. At least, less surprising than the lead in implies. Would be like asking who wants news on the cutting edge of sport
by taeric 2y ago
This is one I find less than surprising. At least, less surprising than the lead in implies.
Would be like asking who wants news on the cutting edge of sports, versus who wants to know how their preferred team is doing.
Now, we like to think people used to be more aligned on the idea of the nation. Or general well being of the world. I am not too shocked to see that people have aligned with cohorts based on perceived identities. Even if I find it disheartening.
- ternaryoperator 2y agoClay Johnson's 2012 book, The Information Diet, discusses this phenomenon in the context of CNN going from a prime place in the news firmament to an also-ran when TV stations started driving news based on primary on their audience's political preferences. For a while, CNN still enjoyed a place as a definitive source whenever big events happened (national elections, disasters, etc.). But even that role was later subsumed by the biased TV sources. In addition to viewer's preferences for their political slant on the news, I think that when CNN gave up the 24-hour Headline News, that probably diminished their role as well.
- sorcerer-mar 2y agoIt is totally worth reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death for a (quite depressing) macro picture theory of this evolution and its consequences on our collective ability to reason about the world.
- ternaryoperator 2y agoQuite agreed. It's an extraordinary book that's far more relevant than Postman could ever have imagined.