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.
A more plausible explanation is that we are drawn to surprising news, and surprising news is more often bad than good.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
how the attention economy works to juice up provocative points of view while ignoring information that is weighed down by the burden of nuance and moderation.
Should Kids Really Learn About Getting Rich?
We now live in a digital age, in which information becomes fluid and variable. All that was solid has melted into air. In the print world, getting your facts right was about competence and care; now what the facts are depends on what date you access a website, or which website you visit. The nature of information has changed irreversibly.
Diana M. Smith • Putting an end to political nonsense
The economics of the internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important—and more profitable—than the truth. With the mass media—and today, mass culture—relying on the web for the next big thing, it is a set of incentives with massive implications.
Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
And one of the biggest lies that internet culture tells us is that something is only important and interesting if it is new. As someone whose day job is at a nonprofit newsroom, I have a front row seat to the consequences of that lie. Convincing anyone to read a story that is more than a week old is an uphill battle