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I don't think so. When I go back and watch TV shows or read headlines from around when I was born, they weren't any better back then, I was simply too young to
by jkoudys 12y ago
I don't think so. When I go back and watch TV shows or read headlines from around when I was born, they weren't any better back then, I was simply too young to realize how ridiculous they all were.
Case in point, the mass hysteria around daycare sexual abuse and satanic rituals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
- lstyls 12y agoI 100% agree that there has always been sensationalism in journalism - that's nothing new. But back then the volume of print media was limited by physical factors - it was expensive to get an article in print. The new economics of media has fundamentally changed the business models. There was no print equivalent of Buzzfeed for example. My point is that the barrier to entry for shoddy journalism is so low that articles like this are flooding the medium more than ever.
- afarrell 12y agoYou would probably find http://www.retroreport.org/ http://www.retroreport.org/ interesting