Wish news outlets would just report news instead of trying to tell me a “story”
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I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more central than "story." Truthtelling, grounding public conversation in fact, verification... listening.
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is this a riff off of the "wish brands would sell me their products instead of their vision", or is the similarity a coincidence
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Soon journalism will collapse to just be Uber-style stringers reporting all news in bullet point fact format and openai’s GPT2 will turn it into whatever prose you want.
Like by this summer.
I’m not joking or exaggerating.
Short all media companies.
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from “Encoding, Decoding” by Stuart Hall (1973): events simply cannot be communicating without being encoded in language, which is *always* an act of storytelling.
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Reminds me of this aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethe, even if it might be a stronger opinion: "None of these stories have relevance to my life. Reading them may be enjoyable, but it’s an enjoyable waste of time. They will have no impact on my actions one way or another."










