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Optimized to Degrade Society
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Bertold Brautigan Sep 5. 1 Reply 1 Like
Mark Buchanan cites tech engineer Jaron Lanier's caution about paranoia-optimized advertising algorithms.…Continue
Tags: internet advertising algorithms, social media, Jaron Lanier
Are community newspapers suppressing liberal opinion?
Started by Grinning Cat. Last reply by Grinning Cat Aug 24. 1 Reply 1 Like
Rick Snedeker writes at Godzooks:Are Community Newspapers Suppressing Liberal…Continue
Tags: Fairness Doctrine, press, freedom of information, censorship
Zombie Apocalypse Media World
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Feb 12. 2 Replies 1 Like
Dan Rather bemoans, “Our digital leashes have us tethered in body and mind to the instantaneous.”Ever since…Continue
Tags: changed media landscape
News Acceleration eviscerates Public Comprehension
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Grinning Cat Jan 2. 1 Reply 2 Likes
image sources:…Continue
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on November 5, 2018 at 7:06pm -
... don’t expect the men and women of the media to save us. Their job, as they define it, is to be lied to and then to repeat those lies in quotation marks.
Eric Alterman
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Comment by Bertold Brautigan on September 5, 2018 at 7:41am -
Manipulating the human heart, reliably, cheaply and at scale is precisely the art the paymasters of the conservative reich have mastered, to the detriment of sane policy. Rational arguments need not apply. 45 could probably kill 50 people on 5th Ave. and not lose a vote.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 4, 2018 at 10:52pm
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The conflict between democracy and dictatorship is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems.
... once somebody (whether in San Francisco or Beijing or Moscow) gains the technological ability to manipulate the human heart—reliably, cheaply, and at scale—democratic politics will mutate into an emotional puppet show.
Yuval Noah Harari
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on August 31, 2018 at 11:02pm
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Funny, Grinning Cat, but not entirely on the mark.
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Comment by Grinning Cat on August 31, 2018 at 10:16pm
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Comment by Grinning Cat on August 25, 2018 at 1:15pm
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(Also posting this on Quotations:)
"The press is the enema of the people because its job is to make assholes come clean."
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Comment by Grinning Cat on August 16, 2018 at 10:05am
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On Popular Vote Loser's / Liar-in-Chief's attitude towards the press:
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Comment by Grinning Cat on August 15, 2018 at 3:02pm
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On coverage of the white supremacists' flop of an anniversary march in Charlottesville last weekend:
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 9, 2017 at 5:15pm
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This rather strange animation makes a good point.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 24, 2017 at 4:45pm
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