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The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures
by Danny Schechter
Description: The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures presents Danny Schechter's experiences in the media industry, examining how news organizations operate and the challenges affecting their coverage and influence
ISBN: 1888363800
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PaulHoule · 2023-07-11 · Original thread
It's less harmful than people think. In a "collaborative filtering" or "chronological timeline with boosts, retweets, etc." world news gets filtered for riling people up and being inflammatory. You might get the conclusion that news itself is a bad thing.

https://www.amazon.com/More-You-Watch-Less-Know/dp/188836380...

If you subscribed to the RSS feeds of 80 publications and picked articles at random you might find 2-3% of the articles are inflammatory. Filter by personal interests and you might get all kinds of weird stuff but it won't be hateful.