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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Mar 2019

      Who'd have thought that if people could choose their own news, they'd choose the stories that made them angry? We take it for granted now, but it really is surprising. Cynical editors used to think "if it bleeds, it leads" was as low as you could go. But people like anger more.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Mar 2019

      Hypothesis: Maybe news has become a business (like alcohol and virtual goods) where revenue is disproportionately driven by heavy consumers (aka "whales"), and they are driving this. Maybe 5% of the population is insatiably angry. Talk radio suggests this is plausible.

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Mar 2019

      Further hypothesis: A publication or news show can't simultaneously induce anger on the right and the left. So the high-minded, politically neutral news outlet like e.g. the NYT or WaPo used to be, is a thing of the past. Now they have to pick sides. Certainly the NYT has.

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    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Mar 2019

      To the extent this is what the news is becoming, it's something to avoid. When I was a kid, it was impressive to consume a lot of news. Someone who subscribed to 5 newspapers would brag about that. But it's not impressive to consume a lot of Fox News. It's not even neutral.

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    5. Ferruccio Balestreri‏ @0xferruccio 29 Mar 2019
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      Do you think news quality deteriorated or we realized how bad it it? Either newspapers can’t control the conversation anymore, and the perspective on them shifted. Or the quality of reporting and incentives structures deteriorated

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Mar 2019
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      Good point. Some of each.

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        1. Ferruccio Balestreri‏ @0xferruccio 29 Mar 2019
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          There might also be some status games in place. The newspaper was a physical accessory used for signaling, so the content didn’t have to be something you’d read.

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        1. Khanoisseur  🐶 🤦🏻‍♂️ 🌎‏ @Khanoisseur 29 Mar 2019
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          This would be a killer apphttps://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1086285465072881665?s=21 …

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          I want to build a news app that displays news stories from left-leaning and right-leaning news outlets, on any given topic, but it strips out headlines and bylines (authors), and publication’s name - just the text. Would be interesting to see how that shapes people’s opinions. https://twitter.com/MITSloan/status/1084627914279272448 …
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        2. Flatvid‏ @flatvid 1 Apr 2019
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          Gawker(and the Jezebel vertical) were very influential in NY media circles, with some of their alumni even going to work for the NYT & New Yorker. That's another driver of the change. I certainly hope they've lost control of the narrative, 'cause they have really gone downhill.

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