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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Sep 13

    A brilliant manifesto on “The problem with real news — and what we can do about it” by @robwijnberghttps://medium.com/de-correspondent/the-problem-with-real-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-f29aca95c2ea …

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      1. Susan Wilson  🕊‏ @SusanWi39078349 Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        I think the bigger problem is the reality that isn't reported at all. The 12 bombs an hour that the US drops around the world, for example. The news we do get distracts us enough that we don't think about what is really important.

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      2. Colin Rosenthal‏ @colinrosenthal Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Yes, I always thought one of the few intelligent things I saw from Nassim Taleb before I blocked him, was that he ignores the news because news is, by definition, the statistically anomalous. (He was exaggerating of course ...)

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      2. DubiousTunic‏ @DubiousTunic Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        The notion of "revealing the climate" rather than the "news" exponentiates the issue of uncritical ideology in editorials. it's almost like they want to be writing a history textbook in real time -- as if there were just one interpretation, or as if we could transcend our time

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      3. Rob Wijnberg‏Verified account @robwijnberg Sep 14
        Replying to @DubiousTunic @sapinker

        Yes, actually a badly evolved notion of “objectivity” plays a big role in this; I will be writing about that in my essay next week

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      1. The Goldilocks Zone‏ @ZScenarios Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Largely agree. I do believe, that in part, news started also losing its credibility the moment anchors started appearing in fictional works as themselves. The implication: Their words could be bought. Gone was Cronkite...

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      1. Harry Dillema‏ @Harry_Dillema Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        You don't need a manifesto. A tweet is enough. Just move out of the business of gaslighting and stop being a globalist shill. Right, Rob?

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      1. Carlos López‏ @BrainstormCarlo Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Very Good, yeah News is all about sensational, exceptional, negative, & current events: -makes us blind to the influential that is not exceptional at all -news constantly gives us the feeling that people can’t be trusted -it blinds us to the longer term -trends rarely make newspic.twitter.com/WiR4kNxI6F

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      1. Philip Dracht‏ @pdracht Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        This is excellent. It articulates, sums up, and provides a solution to a number of thoughts I’ve been having.

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      1. Harry Dillema‏ @Harry_Dillema Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Only problem is the author's newspaper @decorrespondent has been parroting neocon/globalist regime change propaganda to help Uncle Sam to turn Ukraine into a shit hole.

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      1. Charles Broming‏ @cbroming Sep 15
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Thanks, Steven. I’ll sign on when they launch in the US.

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      1. James Johnson‏ @james_m_johnson Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Isn't this what analysis journals already do? (Or supposed to do?) Like TIME magazine?

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      1. SteveBrant‏ @SteveBrant Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        Thank you. This article explains why the 25+ yr old #CorporateSocialResponsibility #CSR movement is NEVER in the mainstream news. 😢 @globalcompact As #RussAckoff my mentor in #SystemsThinking taught me, "What we don't measure is often more important than what we do measure".

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      1. Fireproof Diet‏ @BulbousAmongus Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        It is newsworthy that we are ruled by a sham two-party duopoly, which can be removed by ballot initiative and/or state legislatures, as is happening now in Maine. Support #RCV = #RankedChoiceVoting.http://www.fairvote.org 

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      1. Boiarski‏ @Boiarski Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        #RTtheTRUTH

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      1. Tom Keller‏ @timrinaldo Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        CSPAN is an answer

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      1. Julian A.‏ @jbitwise Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @robwijnberg

        @sapinker Interesting... it seems that sensationalism fits within the band of exploitive psychology, exemplified as @EricRWeinstein mentioned, (e.g) Russell Conjugations. Oversimplification cannot exist within a series of percolating events whose outcome variation is vast.

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