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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“If every student learned how media works, would that protect people or just make them harder to fool and easier to manipulate?”
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Left Media Bias bigger than i realized
No matter how you measure (print media, online, page views, paid subscribers, followers, etc) US media leans heavily left, to an extent that surprised me.... Disasters as Political Fodder
Recently, a family member asked me if I knew about the LA fires. I said "yes, it's terrible". And they said "and they've proven that the fires were started by immigrants." I burst out laughing derisively and said "yes, if they'd just shoot all the immigrants, everything would... It feels like not a coincidence that the thread about media bias has by far the most activity. A couple ways I can think to interpret this are: UpTrust is a project that’s quite centrally about addressing this issue as a facet of the bigger problem of global meaning making, and... - annabeth...
There are a few ways I’m orienting to this. For a long time I listened to NPR every day and got huge emotional surges around every new piece of political info. For the past 5-7 years I am either in a correction or overcorrection.... A big element of fictional power fantasies is having a clear and compelling identity and taking direct action toward goals. This explains why many evil characters are loved even though they are emotionally dysfunctional mob bosses with a terrible home life, or bitter, pathetic,... - marcello...
I mean he did kind of claim to have this super power in advance back in 2016: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?" Trump said, mimicking firing a gun with his fingers.... i really appreciatae a question i'm projecting that you're implying: "Is the attempt to transcend echo-chambers a return to a healthier way of relating in the past, or a new evolution (or something else/both)?" Aside from curiousity, I think even asking the quetion invites me... Meeting in the middle doesn't win elections and news coverage doesn't focus on the many passed laws that actually are bipartisan. A google search shows 70% of passed laws had a Democrat and Republic co-sponsor of the bill.... - david...
Is the Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis dialectic too constraining?
Stephanie Lepp has started a project called "Faces of X" – don’t worry, X doesn’t mean Twitter, rather X as in "fill in the blank" See: https://www.facesofx.org/p/interview-the-glenn-show?r=1gw0e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web She is trying to break people out of either or... - Tomo...
This VS this
I wonder if the USA people here are aware of how the "VS" concept is so normalised in the stars and stripes culture. Poly VS monogamy, Harris VS Trump. I rarely see VS used here in the UK beyond sports, nor anywhere else I’ve visited.... - JackinMN...
I'm wondering how many of you have backed away from "fame." It comes in all sizes. The joke about people in radio broadcasting is that it is "the lowest wrung of the entertainment ladder." Even if true, it is still brutal.... Nature article "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm"
TLDR: "Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities," without changing the self-reported identities of these people (eg they didn't think...