Remember Headline News before Nancy Grace invaded and ruined the format?
I really liked that format because it was the brevity itself that kept reporting to the very base facts. Then, if I wanted to learn more about a story, I could seek it out online and read various sources. The Network nightly news are still very much like that. Local news and newspapers deserve our support as well.
Of course, to the Trumpets, the acronym of the "MSM" has just become another evil boogeyman to blame for the world's problems, all wrapped up in a neat little acronym like "SJW" has been--the world's most successful blogger-focused rebranding of the previous boogeyman of "the liberal media." But when any news channel is on 24 hours a day, be it CNN OR Fox News, it is inevitable that opinion and punditry replace and become the news, extending the viewership in the false drama for non-stop advertiser-drawing ratings.
In many ways what we are seeing continues to be a symptom of the information overload of our time, and the failure of logical aggregation. A thousand strawmen, sample bias and sample error everywhere, echo chambers and false stories and facts supporting existing worldviews...
...all readily and easily produced now that there is not even the cost of paper and printing or film or video tape or literally anything consumable except all of our time and mental energy. Yet people still implicitly trust the technology, as it lowers the floor of information selection to include SO MUCH GARBAGE, and blame evil shadowy conspiracy figures on "the other side" for applying the technology in its intended way, but for purposes they don't agree with.
Easily doxing someone or screenshotting their moments of bad judgment, easily launching and reporting meaningless polls, easily reporting pseudo-science and pseudo-facts and conspiracy-ladened pseudo-truths, customizing your isolated information feed to tell you only that with which you already agree, dogpiling someone with no idea of the impact of the WHOLE of "your side"'s attack by simply justifying a tweet or a comment. As the tactics of the media begin to be mirrored by the tactics of their audience or opposition only in distorted ways... or maybe by the Russians, or ISIS recruitment, or right-wing nazi recruitment... we accept the fact that we don't even know who it is who did what, because that's the nature of the technology. But we are accessible: everyone is someone to be swayed or surpressed, individually, through their own feed.
The technology is working as designed. Information is everywhere. Or ability to select the chaff from the wheat, the kind of societal information selection mechanism that exists (for example) in our courts in codified forms, continue to be replaced by new mechanisms backed by either "liberal media" or "alt-right media," making anyone a potential public figure for scorn and "example making," for prosecution on the airwaves or in the message boards.
So I kind of went off here but it almost seems like our only hope for the future in dealing with his will come as an almost Star Trek Vulcanlike cultural revolution towards precepts of logic. We are swimming in propaganda, and so swayed by emotion, so many of us.
And I believe it is all a big successful distraction so that the agenda of further economic inequity can be advanced. But we would have to be very logical and know which of the sounds is just noise, to be able to discern that.
So, yeah, not being Vulcan we'll probably go the nuclear war and rebuild route instead.
