10-25-2022, 03:38 AM
Anything that might disrupt a corporate entities ability to generate profit, you can expect that corporate news will be incentivized to report on it in a certain fashion.
I'd say a lack of media literacy is the biggest danger and not legacy media itself. You can find useful analysis anywhere if you know what information can be useful and what to discard.
Another thing I've noticed is that the general population seems to not deal well with what you might call "live information environments". In environments when there is incomplete information, people have trouble operating in the probability space where you have make educated guesses for the time being. Then you have to factor in malicious actors deliberately putting out bad information or discrediting true/useful information.
We've had multiple models of information sharing through our history. Broadly you can think of it in stages: Person to person -> Print -> Radio/TV -> Internet. The first stage being the longest that we used to hundreds of thousands of years, Print being used for thousands of years (and it really got a boost with the printing press), and Radio/TV for about a hundred years now. The internet is very fundamentally different than Print & Radio/TV. The internet is really unprecedented in how much is has upended the dominant Radio/TV model we've been under for so long up until the start of this century.
I'd say a lack of media literacy is the biggest danger and not legacy media itself. You can find useful analysis anywhere if you know what information can be useful and what to discard.
Another thing I've noticed is that the general population seems to not deal well with what you might call "live information environments". In environments when there is incomplete information, people have trouble operating in the probability space where you have make educated guesses for the time being. Then you have to factor in malicious actors deliberately putting out bad information or discrediting true/useful information.
We've had multiple models of information sharing through our history. Broadly you can think of it in stages: Person to person -> Print -> Radio/TV -> Internet. The first stage being the longest that we used to hundreds of thousands of years, Print being used for thousands of years (and it really got a boost with the printing press), and Radio/TV for about a hundred years now. The internet is very fundamentally different than Print & Radio/TV. The internet is really unprecedented in how much is has upended the dominant Radio/TV model we've been under for so long up until the start of this century.
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