Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.
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Look at covid as an example there was different narratives coming from all over the place . People can't agree on anything. We have people who beileve in Scientology and flat earth ffs.
There is also the fact that media organizations are owned by someone or some group so they have their own take on things.
Then we have deepfakes and LLMs getting better by the day.
The media all the while has devolved into clickbait titles and tiktoks.
To top it off we are in an extinction event , the planet is fucked and the media sure isn't going to save us.
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For traditional media at least (television/radio/newspapers) I think this quote from Leslie Moonves sums up the death of journalism pretty succinctly:
Frankly, fascism is at the gates and these fuckwits are more concerned with how much money they can make in short term than being worried about whether the fascists plan on stringing them up by their necks for being the "wrong" kind of journalism, once Trump is a dictator.
the planet is fucked and the media sure isn’t going to save us.
Politically, socially, economically, and ecologically flat out fucked.
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Look at covid as an example there was different narratives coming from all over the place . People can’t agree on anything. We have people who beileve in Scientology and flat earth ffs.
People often talk about 1984 or Brave New World, but honestly, your statement right here speaks deeply that we should be way more worried about a Fahrenheit 451 future, and a legion of Captain Beattys. Some choice Captain Beatty quotes follow:
Where’s your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!
The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we’re the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
Yes. It's a massive problem. Imagine if there was an article that covered one of the main reasons for that problem in depth; its past, present and future.
