12/01/2015

All The News That's UN-fit To Print

From Matt Taibbi

It's our fault. We in the media have spent decades turning the news into a consumer business that's basically indistinguishable from selling cheeseburgers or video games. You want bigger margins, you just cram the product full of more fat and sugar and violence and wait for your obese, over-stimulated customer to come waddling forth.
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When you make the news into this kind of consumer business, pretty soon audiences lose the ability to distinguish between what they think they're doing, informing themselves, and what they're actually doing, shopping.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-is-too-dumb-for-tv-news-20151125

1 comment:

bloftin2 said...

I've read most of Taibbi's books. He's entertaining and really good.