So--here is the eminent @JamesFallows writing in 1996, at a very different @TheAtlantic
(ht @SpectralKaiser for the link)
The entire piece is very worth reading as (recent) social history, but I found myself thinking about the opening story yesterday.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/ …
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My suspicion is that US companies who kowtow to China may be in a similar spot but not quite aware of it yet. I'm not sure that people have expectations for American firms to be /good/ so much as efficient; but they may have a visceral reaction to them being /treacherous/
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Testable hypothesis, anyway. It's a complex space. That is: I'm not sure this is true, but it seems plausible.
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well of course they wouldn't, they're on opposing sides
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on otherwise unrelated "Definitely A Simulation" news, there was a band formed in Canada under the name "Viet Cong" with a Mike Wallace playing the drums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preoccupations …
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You can feel there the breath of tendentiousness starting to pervert and overwhelm the old ideals of objectivity. Of course by today’s standards, most journalists would claim they had an anti-colonialist duty to warn the Viet Cong of an ambush if embedded with an American unit.
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And would throw in a sarcastic remark about the people who object to that along the lines of "lol the trolls think we gotta hear BOTH SIDES!".
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