In what alternative universe does your brain exist in where assassination attempts on half a dozen political figures is not considered a major news story?
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Assassination attempts on former presidents or a Brown sophmore yelling at Sam Harris - what's more newsworthy?
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Clearly the latter because it shows University students are against the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment means ethics in video game journalism
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If you have not read it, Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Ethics of the Laws of Gaming Journalism" is an essential text (read it in French if possible).
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Good but incomplete since he completely omits the Legend of Zelda series in his examination.
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He discusses L of Z in the original French! That's why I mentioned it. I learned French last week just so I could read it.
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Steve, come on.
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I suppose (big suppose) that a case for this position can be made for the caravan coverage. But to suggest media coverage of yesterdays events, which amount to assignation attempts, represents breathless “saturated” coverage is actually irresponsible to claim.
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Put another way, if any of those bombs had successfully detonated, would the coverage still be “saturated” based on the standards you laid out? Having read your book, I think you are viewing this incedent from your own personal theoretical prism.
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One searches for reason in Pinkers statement..& comes up nada.

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He’s taking his underlying thesis that the media focuses too much on daily negative stories rather than positive longer term trends to an illogical extreme.
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Oh I caught that. How that applies to the current daily assault on truth & language, by a dictator wannabe & his post-conservative handlers.. justifying violence against the fourth estate qualifies his thesis as irrelevant.
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A criticism of his work is that it diminishes progressive concerns & that it has been weaponized by conservatives.Specifically that 1) it legitimizes notion that press is biased 2) progressives shouldnt complain because the world is measurably more positive & healthy than in past
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I get that your whole shtick is to be a Panglossian apologist for quotidian structural violence, but joining Trump this morning by effectively blaming "the press" for assassination attempts on journalists kind of gives the game away don't you think
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First of all, check that the time series is not accelerating. Second, it is a fair criticism that people who thought asking someone to leave a restaurant was a great breakdown in civility are now utterly bored by actual bombs.
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The irony right?
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