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> is a testament to how poorly our mainstream and social media outlets have informed the citizenry. You're assuming people _want_ to be "informed." You could
by timewizard 1y ago
> is a testament to how poorly our mainstream and social media outlets have informed the citizenry.
You're assuming people _want_ to be "informed." You could build the best news apparatus in the world, the most accurate reporting, with full scale third party auditing of your results.
It likely would not change very much. Humans are not designed to lock into large scale groups and then make coordinated long term decisions together. In my opinion we should avoid doing this as much as is possible.
- csoups14 1y agoAgreed. People want to be entertained, not informed.
- scrubs 1y agoGreat point. I made much the same before in a different way. We're all clear Disney, Star Wars, TV is entertainment. People are not clear that Rush Limbaugh, opinion makers on podcasts, Fox, CNN, Tick-tock is also entertainment. The straightest venue for news proper has got to be CSPAN. They're clearly there to inform not to push a point, piss you off at the other side, or any other shadow-boxing goals. Getting people pissed off to own the liberals, the neo-cons, to own the Trump supporters is ... entertainment and it doesn't hurt (I write this cynically) it helps drives up ad-revenue.
- keybored 1y agoAre you people?
- spacecadet 1y ago"Are you not entertained?!"
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