We're witnessing a powerful feedback loop in the media: paint-by-numbers journalism sets a narrative, the lack of context and nuance leaves little for the audience to do but pick from the narratives offered, and then, having made a selection, punish sources that go off-narrativehttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/1170821709093470208 …
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Why punish sources that go off-narrative? Because choosing narratives has become the default strategy for understanding the world. To offer conflicting narratives is to imply that you can't provide infallible understanding, and a readership expecting that will feel betrayed
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Why would a readership expect infallible understanding...? What else would they expect, after a decade or two consuming information-as-fact with little deviation in classroom environments?
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I know we're not supposed to tell journalists to learn to code, but it really might make for better journalists, because it's one of the few activities with an assumption-result cycle fast enough to force the stubborn human mind to see how wrong it is nearly all of the time
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All this I agree with- but do you think it is a result of our culture or a driver of our culture? I mean we see this in every public forum available, e.g. Twitter
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Both — I think this is a self-perpetuating mechanism; the result is itself a driver
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