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Re: We Analyzed 100M Headlines

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Post by azinman2 »

bananabill wrote: post #17
azinman2 wrote: post #2

This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…

I appreciate that this is the top comment, and starts with 'This is Why' which is the second most engaging phrase apparently.

:)

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Post by GoToRO »

azinman2 wrote: post #2

This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…

Electing somebody and then not having any control over the decisions they vote is not 100% democracy... More like 1%.

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Post by demonshalo »

azinman2 wrote: post #2

This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…

"This is why"

ooh the irony...

That's not the reason democracy is broken. Democracy was broken since the time of the ancient Greeks. That's what Socrates set out to prove with his trail. Democracy is not a good system, the sooner you come to that conclusion the better it is!

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Post by jwblackwell »

jondubois wrote: post #45

It also depends on the channel. I think that "We analyzed x" and "...this is what we found" are pretty popular on HN.

Yep, most of these charts are based on Facebook engagement. If you anayzed the top trigrams of headlines posted to HN I think you would get quite a different picture, though some similarities as you say.

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Post by tertius »

Retra wrote: post #27
888uuii wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here, I have a proposal for you: Imagine a world government wherein the killing, torture, and imprisonment of people is illegal, as the core clause of the state. In this state, the core clause does not permit the interests of the state over those of the individual; the state exists to support an individual. Imagine a political party which comes to power through the co-option of the public sphere to support the above…

Sounds like a useless government. I mean, if such a state can't kill or imprison people, how are they going to get other people to comply with their laws? And if they can , why would any other government cede the ability to do so themselves?

Banishment?

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Post by tertius »

powertower wrote: post #40
azinman2 wrote: post #2

This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…

CNN, MSNBC, and BBC, are at the top of the fake news paradigm. Everything they report goes through a process that removes all details that do not match the narrative they are pushing at the time. The underlining problem is that fair and honest journalism - that reports the facts and lets the viewer/reader make up their own mind - has been replaced by a sided & weaponized news media, owned and operated by those with h…

> fair and honest journalism - that reports the facts and lets the viewer/reader make up their own mind - has been replaced

When did this exist except in theory in a classroom?

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