How Millennials Get News

Post by cbd1984 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:18 PM UTC

proksoup wrote: post #49

cbd1984 wrote: post #26

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Trolls are reinforcing the bubble by "proving" that everyone outside of it is purely an asshole with no intent to have a conversation, merely to insult and ridicule and try to cause people to leave the forum.

The problem is the labeling of them as trolls, is what I meant. There is no such thing as trolls, that person you call a troll is making a joke or making a point and you're too far inside your own bubble to not call them an asshole.

Post by cbd1984 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

Spooky23 wrote: post #45

cbd1984 wrote: post #30

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> In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings. And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brinkley and Huntley. Basically, this statement says nothing and means nothing, because it's just a generational marker, nothing more.

That's a total gloss-over. Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network. As the number of channels increased and mandates decreased, they shifted to a more "entertainy" format to keep viewers. This stuff is all available online. Look at the information density of a random broadcast in 1965, 1975, etc. Si…

Post by brc » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

asr wrote: post #38

coldpie wrote: post #34

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> News has been able to sell itself with the dictum that you "have to know what's happening!" Yeah. A couple years ago when I was about 24, I decided I "should be more informed" because that's what adults do, so I bought a year subscription to Minneapolis's major newspaper with the goal of reading it mostly every day. I did for a while, but quickly realised that I didn't give a shit about almost anything in the paper…

I don't care about how the war in Iraq is going.... I don't care how many people are dying in a genocide on the other side of the world. I am sure this is not quite how you mean it, but to me this comes across as saying "if it doesn't affect my life, or my friends, then who cares." You should care about things that don't directly impact your life -- partly because you can make a difference in these things, sometimes,…

Post by proksoup » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 6:04 AM UTC

cbd1984 wrote: post #51

proksoup wrote: post #49

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The problem is the labeling of them as trolls, is what I meant. There is no such thing as trolls, that person you call a troll is making a joke or making a point and you're too far inside your own bubble to not call them an asshole.

No, the person who's harassing someone for being different isn't making a joke or a point. They're harassing someone for being different. People who try to make others commit suicide don't have a valid point.