I find it amazing the Trump has been able to sell this election fraud myth so effectively without being able to provide hard evidence... What is it about humans that a good measure of the population will so willingly fall under the spell of an authoritarian leader and deny reality?
Its not that the other moderate folks that agree with Trump are stupid, their information world is just completely different.
If one listens to Hannity and OAN as your only source of information, you'd think that what Trump was doing was sane.
Yes, and if you listen to what the rest of the MSM is selling you, you'd think there was no such thing as The Swamp.
Ignorant citizens will always pick and choose their favorite flavor of "news". I'm fine with that, as long as they don't stupidly assume selling bullshit for clicks, likes, and ratings doesn't exist on their side too. That is what tends to get really annoying as intelligent humans stand off to the side and try not to get in the line of fire, as professional shit-slingers do their thing for t
Maybe the problem is the collapse of traditional moderate news, Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murrow, David Brinkley, etc. Everyone listened to them because they told what happened, and the editorials were put at the end of the half hour, so even if you didn't like the bias of the editorial you still knew that rest of the show was pretty much on the up and up. And if there was too much obvious bias in the editorials then you'd lose viewership and it would correct itself.
Now news is 24 hours a day, it's big business, and you gotta fill those 24 hours with stuff to keep people interested, and that means sensationalizing everything. And we get to pick and choose the bias flavor that we want and everyone is in a bubble; any straight-up moderate/centrist view of the news is rare.
Now a lot of people are still getting good news, most of us learn how to do it. But the fraction of people who want only the fantasy version is growing, and they're large enough to have political influence, which just feeds into itself making it grow faster.
Trump is sinister. (Score:4, Insightful)
I find it amazing the Trump has been able to sell this election fraud myth so effectively without being able to provide hard evidence... What is it about humans that a good measure of the population will so willingly fall under the spell of an authoritarian leader and deny reality?
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Its not that the other moderate folks that agree with Trump are stupid, their information world is just completely different.
If one listens to Hannity and OAN as your only source of information, you'd think that what Trump was doing was sane.
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Its not that the other moderate folks that agree with Trump are stupid, their information world is just completely different.
If one listens to Hannity and OAN as your only source of information, you'd think that what Trump was doing was sane.
Yes, and if you listen to what the rest of the MSM is selling you, you'd think there was no such thing as The Swamp.
Ignorant citizens will always pick and choose their favorite flavor of "news". I'm fine with that, as long as they don't stupidly assume selling bullshit for clicks, likes, and ratings doesn't exist on their side too. That is what tends to get really annoying as intelligent humans stand off to the side and try not to get in the line of fire, as professional shit-slingers do their thing for t
Re:Trump is sinister. (Score:3)
Maybe the problem is the collapse of traditional moderate news, Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murrow, David Brinkley, etc. Everyone listened to them because they told what happened, and the editorials were put at the end of the half hour, so even if you didn't like the bias of the editorial you still knew that rest of the show was pretty much on the up and up. And if there was too much obvious bias in the editorials then you'd lose viewership and it would correct itself.
Now news is 24 hours a day, it's big business, and you gotta fill those 24 hours with stuff to keep people interested, and that means sensationalizing everything. And we get to pick and choose the bias flavor that we want and everyone is in a bubble; any straight-up moderate/centrist view of the news is rare.
Now a lot of people are still getting good news, most of us learn how to do it. But the fraction of people who want only the fantasy version is growing, and they're large enough to have political influence, which just feeds into itself making it grow faster.