Media is losing people's trust fast. Well deserved!
152 sats \ 6 replies \ @kenn_b 20 Dec 2023
I wonder where they turn to. Their social media feed full of retarded short videos :). The humanity is doomed.
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152 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 20 Dec 2023
Yeah unfortunately most alternatives are worse. The same incentives that drive media companies drive their favorite audience captured influencers.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @magicka 21 Dec 2023
this is, sadly, exactly what happens. Data from 2023 (UK) https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/264651/news-consumption-2023.pdf
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Nooo. We'll find better ways (look what we're doing right now) to communicate
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @kenn_b 20 Dec 2023
we are in a fishbowl my friend
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Let's see it positive: we still have the capability to recognize this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 20 Dec 2023
that is true
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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 20 Dec 2023
Crisis is an overused word these days, designed to keep people in a state of perpetual anxiety.
Thanks for sharing the charts, the effect is really profound. Looks to me more like an awakening or a natural cleanse/detox/shift. If these companies are no longer serving people, new personalities will fill that void. It’s good news that people are becoming more sceptical, not bad in the slightest!
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221 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
That's what I always say!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 21 Dec 2023
Who were those OGs in 73 saying None at All??
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scholarhacker 20 Dec 2023
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41 sats \ 7 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Dec 2023
The news used to be a public service good provided because they were using publicly owned airwaves. CNN (cable) disrupted the model into one where they had to compete for profit. This fiat wins until the incentives change
#bitcoin fixes this!
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Right
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @jgbtc 21 Dec 2023
Competing for profit is not the problem, it's the solution. Did you see those negative traffic numbers? That means less profit. If they didn't need to compete there would never be any incentive to improve, or mechanism for them to go bust.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Dec 2023
I get this philosophically, but is is inaccurate historically. News programming and information quality improved greatly before this change happened. It was trusted.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @jgbtc 21 Dec 2023
I put the blame on the money, not on profits/competition. The quality was already going downhill since 1971 (no surprise). CNN was founded in 1980, eight years after the negative trend had already started. Also print newspapers and magazines were always for-profit and highly competitive. Presumably, these account for most of the high trust percentage prior to the time period on the graph (print being more dominant back then). So as usual this is another example of what happens when the money is broken.
tl;dr I think for-profit news would work well under hard money like bitcoin, just like it worked well when USD was hard money prior to 1971 (same can be said for everything).
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Dec 2023
You conflate much. You are describing the change and timeline I reference. Money was broken in 1933. People give room much credit, or blame, to Nixon.
Print media started with muckrackery and is a completely different animal and outside this argumentnI am making which was about public airwaves.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jgbtc 21 Dec 2023
Still, how is profit/competition to blame? It is historically accurate to say 1) for-profit media companies (aka newspapers) existed before the decline in trust, and 2) CNN was founded well after the downard trend started. So something else (broken money) must be the cause.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Dec 2023
There is lots of information on the history of media in the U.S. Read up on that muckrackery history I mentioned. William Randolph Hurst, etc. Google it. In America, the news was originally a side-activity of printing and other companies, etc. Just as when radio and TV started the news was a public service add on. In the case of using public airwaves, it was a regulation.
Big industrial change takes a decade. CNN's planning, organization, and early work was far before it's founding date and out of the effects of the changes going on in the 70s.
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15 sats \ 4 replies \ @Neo 20 Dec 2023
32% still retarded
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @alamino 20 Dec 2023
I believe older people who were used to TV, radio and newspapers as the only media might be the majority of these 32%. I would like to see age segmentation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
That's clearly the case. It's the demografic that still has 100000% trust in the state and its reps
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eobard 20 Dec 2023
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 20 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Oh how they love their ''democracy''... they love it so much that these commies are destroying the rest of it right in front of our eyes now
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @piecover 20 Dec 2023
It's not a crisis it's a benefit to the people not being brainwashed. The media is not real media they owned and controlled by the very few 1%
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Absolutely. Therefore we develop new ways to interact like Nostr
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @shado_op 20 Dec 2023
I remember when you could trust the BBC, happy days!
I was thinking news media is still very 20th century. With digital tech, there could be a crowd sourced news solution/service, like Wikipedia but for news, but with direct sources required (not just a link to another media source).
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236 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 20 Dec 2023
you could never trust the BBC. You just didn't have access to anything questioning it, so there was no challenge, which made it uncontested and therefore "taught" you to trust it.
The mass media manufactured consent for the Vietnam war. It lied about Gulf of Tonkin. It lied about all the other wars, as well. It panicked you into crime scares, drug scares, youth scares.
There are great book from the 1980s about the moral panics the media created out of thin air, before the CNN disrupt. It made you believe that "rockers" were attacking UK institutions (Stanley Cohen, Mods and Rockers). It made people believe satanist cults were abducting their children. It made moms believe Dungeons and Dragons, the GAM, was a gateway to that, and thus created "MADD", Moms Against Dungeons and Dragons.
All of these panics still exist today. All the war lies still exist. But we live in a plural communication structure, and there's always someone that tells you this is BS. It's easier now to not trust them, as there are circles of distrust, and they are no longer just local.
Also, wikipedia has been captured long ago.
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Dec 2023
Free platforms (like Nostr) are here to stay and grow. They have the potential to reinforce the individual.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 29 Mar
I think people are realizing how much they are wrong.
The fear they spread from covid, people are still recovering from it.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @thebitcoinbugle 24 Dec 2023
The Bugle is here to fix the crisis. We are a news agency with integrity.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 24 Dec 2023
Are You running an agency, too?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @thebitcoinbugle 24 Dec 2023
We are unique in the fact that we are a news agency with zero overlap with intelligence agencies. We are more of an unintelligence agency
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 24 Dec 2023
Nice. Like us. But we're doing propaganda in the name of the private sector
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @thebitcoinbugle 24 Dec 2023
We don't do propaganda for anyone. We try to report the truth as we see it
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 24 Dec 2023
I get it. I found the ageny a long time ago as a classic marketing agency. ''Propaganda'' was a little cynical. But I will sell my part in some weeks and my sister will continue. I am a free man now.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 21 Dec 2023
Mass media is programmed to manipulated people's way of thinking and opinion about various subject matter so when people are looking for freedom, mass media will definitely lose their puppets
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Dec 2023
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for five straight decades, shame on me.
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