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Before reading the article, one should see this (quite convincing) claim that the author has plagiarized many of the ideas in it: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm
(Authorship matters. Particularly in discussions of authorship mattering.)
Former reporter here: One of the things many people don't understand is that news organizations exist for themselves as much as they do for their readers. They are drama queens crying out for attention. Now imagine putting 10 drama queens in a room together with 100 innocent bystanders. That is the media industry. They will tire you out. Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeuris…
What makes you think people do not understand?
Can you relate to us an experience that made you think that?
"One of the things..."
What are the other things that people do not understand?
People often feel the need to contact me and tell me about the latest bombing or kidnapping in a country on my route. I always ask how many people got married in that country yesterday, or how many people had the happiest day of their life with a child born, or other celebration.
Of course, nobody has any idea, because the media doesn't tell us things like that.
[1] My blog is http://theroadchoseme.com
Former reporter here: One of the things many people don't understand is that news organizations exist for themselves as much as they do for their readers. They are drama queens crying out for attention. Now imagine putting 10 drama queens in a room together with 100 innocent bystanders. That is the media industry. They will tire you out. Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeuris…
"One of the things people don't understand is that news organization exist as much for themselves as much as they do for their readers." What makes you think people do not understand? Can you relate to us an experience that made you think that? "One of the things..." What are the other things that people do not understand?
Instead of using going to Facebook first when I'm bored these days I'll check out the top stories from r/all on reddit, check out Google News, or Hacker News top stories. I used to take a lot of pride in being current with world news or my industry news. This all started about 5-6 years ago when news aggregators started getting better. The first one for me was http://newsmap.jp/ . In reality I think it made me feel w…
But I can't keep a reddit account. The amount of misinformation in reddit and my tendency to correct people just gets too consuming.
Former reporter here: One of the things many people don't understand is that news organizations exist for themselves as much as they do for their readers. They are drama queens crying out for attention. Now imagine putting 10 drama queens in a room together with 100 innocent bystanders. That is the media industry. They will tire you out. Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeuris…
They probably should. They censor all the hard foreign political stuff to not effect public sentiment. They give you just enough to keep you on their program.
I travel to places many people think of as traditionally dangerous - I drove Alaska->Argentina[1] and I'm setting out to drive around Africa for 2 years. People often feel the need to contact me and tell me about the latest bombing or kidnapping in a country on my route. I always ask how many people got married in that country yesterday, or how many people had the happiest day of their life with a child born, or othe…