If mainstream media would do THAT to a politician with a huge Twitter following who will certainly correct them on it, what wouldn't they fabricate? They just don't care about making stuff up. They have no more incentive not to. What you believe about their rules is a lie.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087750219788419074 …
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% public carrying recording devices 24/7, info redundancy
direct channels (public figures → constituencies)
funding/demand for bundled media vs. newer direct channels
allegiance to/denunciation of the old media as a tribal signal
shared narrative
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like, every time I see the media do something impressively irresponsible I have to try to remember that everyone is now playing family-rules checkers with chess pieces & pretending that's normal
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The scarier thing is that this has been happening for decades, but we refuse to update our understanding of media and continue to consume it as if it’s factual information. Where’s Bayes Rule when you need it?
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I mean...this kind of thing has been going on for decades. Manufacturing Consent came out in 1988.
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the information redundancy & direct channel elements are new; without those, a shared narrative is possible even if that narrative is spun
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