My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”
There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.
Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.
anecdote
I was still a child during Iraqi freedumb and even then I knew something was fucky because friends in other countries were saying our politicians were lying to us to go to war, but my parents and teachers all believed the media coverage of wmds
Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.
My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”
There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.
Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.
anecdote
I was still a child during Iraqi freedumb and even then I knew something was fucky because friends in other countries were saying our politicians were lying to us to go to war, but my parents and teachers all believed the media coverage of wmds
Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.