Remember that we live in a world where the most clickable headlines make the most money and thus the way the world is represented by the media often isn’t the reality of how things work.
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Remember that we live in a world where the most clickable headlines make the most money and thus the way the world is represented by the media often isn’t the reality of how things work.
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Would love to see the actual source and author as the usual stuff works. I mentioned here when I save highlights from a read-it-later app.
Easier to read, and nice little shout-out to the publication/author
No corporate branding/passive marketing. This is about the people right?
File over app, knowing where/who I got a particular insight from matters more to me than what app/tool I read it on.
- The word 'news' makes people think about the old world and only the type of stories usually covered by traditional media. While the actual world of news, when we look at real consumption and attention time, is dominantly something very different.
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- we live in a world where even the most intimate realities are mediated to us through the content strategies of others.
from Vibes Are Not Enough
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The world of news is noisy, because they have to hype it. They try to get you to pay attention to something that’s not actually important. They create a false sense of urgency, social status, fear, shock, or any tricks possible to manipulate your psychological triggers, and ultimately help them profit. By contrast, the truly important things are qu
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- The media has propagated a new definition of what it means to be a good consumer of information. They want you to read high-velocity content from multiple information streams and be constantly plugged into what’s happening. They can sell the most advertisements this way.
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