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Aug 8, 2016

"Journalism"


And again - why are we allowing all the real journalism to happen on 1/2 hour cable shows?

I wouldn't mind one little bit if we broke up the Media Mega-Giants, but I'm not advocating for a plan to then prop them up as viable outlets. Business is business, and you can't mandate profitability.

This will probably be a fairly long slow process of evolving into a workable model, but it occurs to me that along with all the scary shit about Report-o-Bots and Digital Content Generators, one thing we could get from the techno-wizardry is some kind of a built-in Fact Check mechanism.  Right now, I can high-lite a word or a string of text (on my Mac), right-click on it and look it up in the dictionary, or Google it, or go to Wikipedia or whatever - the point being in this case that the same technology that gets us a problem can be used to help us solve that problem.

In the meantime, we need to keep on keepin' on by learning more about applied skepticism and critical thinking.  

Because, even tho there are a few signs of improvement, this shit will prob'ly just get weirder before it starts to get anywhere close to relaxed and groovy.

Press Poodle of the future

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