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As much as I ideologically hate the loss of these institutions and fantasize about going back to a time when it felt like these things worked. I don’t know tha
by techblueberry 10mo ago
As much as I ideologically hate the loss of these institutions and fantasize about going back to a time when it felt like these things worked.
I don’t know that it ever worked and maybe there’s a hump we can get over when individuals really can create their own media. It feels like we’re getting there with journalism, through real investigative or international journalism may always be prohibitively expensive (sharing an opinion or researching public data is easy. Else not so much)
But I’ve never really enjoyed the news. The news has never been what the newsroom said it was, at least not in my lifetime. It was always pretty shallow.
Hollywood is similar, it was certainly better?, but will we get to the point that a movie line rounders could be self-financed?
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo agoWe have no basis for believing that the loss of the institutions we're losing will lead to something better. It's a lie sold by demagogues who profit from the vacuum.
- techblueberry 10mo agoI mean, It’s nuanced and maybe I agree with the underlying point you’re trying to make, but I absolutely think there’s evidence there is something better because we have it. Independent journalists have more freedom to provide a larger diversity of opinions and perspectives that often go deeper than legacy media ever did.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 9mo ago> Independent journalists have more freedom to provide a larger diversity of opinions and perspectives that often go deeper than legacy media ever did. While this is true, bad actors also have more freedom to provide a large diversity of false and misleading information. The sheer of amount of noise that can be generated automatically by AI tools could easily overwhelm the signal from genuine sources. In this situation, the majority of people are either misinformed, or tune out entirely.
- tw04 10mo ago> It feels like we’re getting there with journalism Huh? Media is less trusted now than it’s ever been and that’s largely driven by Twitter driving people to be “first” instead of accurate. Not to mention the state sponsored bots promoting lies to try to distract from actual journalism. Combine that with billionaires attempting to buy up all our trusted sources of news to completely control the narrative (a functioning government would put a nail in Ellison) and we’re screwed. And no, there’s 0 chance that individuals are filing the void that will be created. They don’t have the access or the funds to do anything significantly meaningful.