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PlainName:
--- Quote ---Nice work, another airhead conspiracy theory bites the dust! :D
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For every one he has to admit is fake, he has three or four insinuations standing by to replace it.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 27, 2020, 05:21:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: paulca on July 27, 2020, 05:08:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on July 27, 2020, 05:01:37 pm ---I really wish there weren't so many phony conspiracy theories and fake news articles floating around. Every now and then there is something genuinely shady going on or even a kernel of truth behind some of the articles but most of it is complete hogwash which tends to overshadow any bits of truth.
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Social media. As to how, why, will it pass? F.. knows. It's echo chamber mechanics. Cultural influences take time to propagate properly, but will initially exist in enclosed echo chambers. To defeat it, we need to break down those echo chambers.... but they are the core of social media "reward" mechanics that keeps everyone watching adverts.
EDIT: The trouble is it's expanding out of social media into real world face to face, with real guns and real deaths. Rewards mechanics. I get more likes on social media if I get shot in the face by a storm trooper.
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Social media is bad, but you can't blame it all on them. The main stream media have lost all touch with reality. They don't report what happened. They report what they would like to have happened. Its all about the narrative.
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It used to be the case that by "knowing" a particular newspaper's politics, you also knew the lens through which they were looking at everything - right or left.
With social media, you never know which BS filter to apply...
coppice:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 27, 2020, 07:58:26 pm ---It used to be the case that by "knowing" a particular newspaper's politics, you also knew the lens through which they were looking at everything - right or left.
With social media, you never know which BS filter to apply...
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This is true. Things used to be this way. That's because the media used to think they needed to be grounded in the truth, and could only apply bias. Now they know that they can get away with making things up wholesale, and they do. When you see something in the media it may have nothing whatsoever to do with real events. Its just like social media. We are in an age of narrative driven fiction.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 27, 2020, 08:46:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 27, 2020, 07:58:26 pm ---It used to be the case that by "knowing" a particular newspaper's politics, you also knew the lens through which they were looking at everything - right or left.
With social media, you never know which BS filter to apply...
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This is true. Things used to be this way. That's because the media used to think they needed to be grounded in the truth, and could only apply bias. Now they know that they can get away with making things up wholesale, and they do. When you see something in the media it may have nothing whatsoever to do with real events. Its just like social media. We are in an age of narrative driven fiction.
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If I were a rich man (as the song goes), I would put together a team of smart, aggressive lawyers to go after media BS with various defamation lawsuits, to the point where it would get truly painful for the media moguls involved. (Yes, I know, this is basically taking over what ought to be a government function of some kind. But as government is no longer functional...)
james_s:
It frustrates me that most of the media is so biased, the mainstream outlets seem to be mostly left biased to varying degrees with the exception of Fox which is very right biased. It's interesting to read about the same events on both and note the often vastly different way they are presented. I can usually come away feeling like I have a reasonable grasp by reading both and trying to interpolate but it really would be nice if there was a reputable news outlet that would really strive to just present the dry facts and not try to spin it one way or the other. Probably wouldn't get the ratings though, conservatives would see unbiased news as liberal biased, while liberals would see the same news as conservative biased.
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