04-14-2019, 10:32 AM
(04-14-2019, 07:01 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Because today's media is unreliable. It's exaggerating or giving a false narrative a lot of the time. When you doubt the mainstream media you look elsewhere. I see the media as just a fear mongering industry designed to make money off of people's irrationality.
Please define "today's media", and what makes them unreliable. If your point is that all media make errors, then you can remove the adjective "today's". Reportage is not a science, and many of the sources reporters use have agendas that are deeply hidden and hard to identify. The good media will own-up to their mistakes, and publish corrections. If you're being selective and only eyeballing certain media, then you should identify which media you mean.
And on the topic of money: all media have to pay to exist, so saying they impure because they serve commercial interests is pretty disingenuous. Even PBS and NPR need to serve more than their viewers and listeners. That doesn't make then fear mongers. The world is already scary enough without media hype to pump it up. That's not to say that there aren't media entities out there that specialize in fear. There are. They do not constitute more than a fraction of today's media, though.
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