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redpoint5 · 10-29-2021, 04:06 PM

When there were only 3 TV channels, news could report the news because there was nothing else people could distract themselves with. If the news wasn't something people wanted to hear, there wasn't much risk of losing eyeballs to view their advertising.

Now that "news" is monetized by clicks, and people have a billion ways in which to distract themselves and the accompanying short attention span, it can hardly contain facts because people aren't interested in them. It must be sensational. We can't call Ivermectin a prescription medication, it has to be horse pills so the story can be sensational.

10-29-2021, 04:06 PM	#144 (permalink)
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