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"Instead, it focuses on the (true) facts it wants you to think about, and ignores other true facts that contradict them or add context." What an observation I wonder if this applies to the article itself in like a meta-ironic way.
Nobody is claiming that there isn't a major problem, just that one proposed solution is fundamentally misguided.
Intentionally omitting context in order to mislead is still lying . Communicating with the intent of deception is lying. That's absolutely a common meaning of the term. Lying: "The sky is hi-vis yellow" Also lying: "Under Biden's EPA—can you believe this, folks?—the sky is blue. Here with us today is a scientist and fellow with the Bullshit Institute for Mercenary Science who will tell us why blue is the worst color…
The industry was legitimately overrun with nepotism and disclosure problems. They benefited from a toxic and obsessive audience for years. Then their audience turned on them (for a mix of legitimate and illegitimate reasons), but the industry players were the ones who held the microphone. They got to define the story as they saw it - and absolved themselves of any wrongdoing.
And now that toxic ball of highly-technical male youths have grown into a political entity that has too much time on their hands and distrusts media and victim narratives as a rule.
Does anyone remember "gamergate"? Hear me out, but I don't thing we have really come to terms with the fallout yet. The industry was legitimately overrun with nepotism and disclosure problems. They benefited from a toxic and obsessive audience for years. Then their audience turned on them (for a mix of legitimate and illegitimate reasons), but the industry players were the ones who held the microphone. They got to de…
I think the original thesis is correct, but my best counterexample is the Covington Kids where the media had the original video which gave them the full context, yet they chose to hide that evidence and instead advance the idea that somehow the kids were white supremacists based on the pixels from one close-up photo. I think another reasonable counterexample is Jussie Smollett's catastrophe, where any fleeting scruti…
Interestingly, a lawsuit about that was thrown out for the same reason given in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/covington-kid-nicholas-sandm... Basically, the news was just reporting what someone said, so no foul. > He objected to widely-reported statements by Phillips to the effect that Sandmann had "blocked" him and "would not allow him to retreat." > But the judge said that these are "objectively unv…
There is a reason the majority of the public distrusts the mainstream media. Mainstream media outlets are inveterate liars.
One small reference: https://gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolat...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
By that definition, everything is a lie because you can not convey all relevant information ever. I.e. all information exchange is a partial information exchange. Intent-based analysis is not useful, because you can't know the intent and also the intent doesn't make any difference as to what the effect will be - that well-intended source can have the same or worse misleading effect as an ill-intended source, and the…
You are correct when you say that you cannot convey all relevant information. But your conclusion is still wrong. For example, a lot of Covid reporting really annoyed me, on both sides. One side would say "Here's facts A and B; see, the vaccine is working!". The other side would say "Here's facts C and D; see, the vaccine is killing people!". Over and over again. What we needed was the article that said "Here's A, B,…
Here’s the first example I found: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/health/cdc-vaccine-heart-...
Does anyone remember "gamergate"? Hear me out, but I don't thing we have really come to terms with the fallout yet. The industry was legitimately overrun with nepotism and disclosure problems. They benefited from a toxic and obsessive audience for years. Then their audience turned on them (for a mix of legitimate and illegitimate reasons), but the industry players were the ones who held the microphone. They got to de…
If your goal is to help people understand media better, they do need to know that most media deception is accomplished by simply avoiding relevant facts rather than voicing outright falsehoods. In other words, as a media consumer, your primary question should be, "What are they not telling me?" This is why it helps to multi-source your news.
That is a very instructive lesson to learn - something we should teach kids in school, really.
Does anyone remember "gamergate"? Hear me out, but I don't thing we have really come to terms with the fallout yet. The industry was legitimately overrun with nepotism and disclosure problems. They benefited from a toxic and obsessive audience for years. Then their audience turned on them (for a mix of legitimate and illegitimate reasons), but the industry players were the ones who held the microphone. They got to de…
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