RoundSparrow
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She's still a crazy bigot. I hope Democrats won't try to champion her for this
Pretty common brain rot in USA to think that #FoxNews problem and Addiction to #Fiction storytelling on social media and television is about Republican vs. Democrats.
The problem is the speed of information. Fox News, Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit.
People choose fiction when they blow their minds on dumb-shit high-speed memes. #RescueDonaldTrump
“Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes, The Fox News cable channel conveys its version of reality, while at the other end of the ideological spectrum MSNBC presents its version. They and their many counterparts on radio are more the result of an economic dynamic than a political one. Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to vent on the air is entirely cost-free. It wouldn’t work if it weren’t popular, and audiences, it turns out, are endlessly absorbed by hearing amplified echoes of their own biases. It’s divisive and damaging to the healthy functioning of our political system, but it’s also indisputably inexpensive and, therefore, good business.” ― Ted Koppel. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. October 27, 2015. Page 13.
@RoundSparrow
I think i get your point but i would say the money flows from ideology and fear of other people. It's the campaign donations generated and spent on video productions and broadcast air time, whether the message is to make sure God's babies all make it to birth or that people are allowed even a hint of bodily autonomy when they are pregnant.
Political division is the entire premise for WHY this money flows
> "Political division is the entire premise for WHY this money flows"
> "I think i get your point "
Based on your reply, I do not think you do.
My points:
1. Fiction outsells nonfiction
2. Fox News is a source of fiction entertainment storytelling.
3. See Also: #Mosque #Church - #Bible fiction
4. American people are now dumb-asses since year 2013, the population is the problem. Mastodon users who refuse to learn and study media ecology.
I quoted a nonfiction book from Ted Koppel to you - and you did not engage the serious nonfiction book. Stupid dumb population in USA, We The People, have wrecked their brains on dumb television and stupid Mastodon, Reddit, Bluesky memes. Dumb content. Trump provides thrilling content, he is an actor who is acting.
The SPEED of information, the high-speed TCP/IP delivery of Mastodon messages is what I cited as the core problem that the brainwashing has been about, the brain rot.
"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers" ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 38
Trump's home town, New York City, Fox News New York City, New York University:
"For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
Repeating. Have you ever heard people call Trump a clown? A entertaining clown show? Go read page 111 of that 1985 book. It isn't about Donald Trump, it's about We The People being attracted to clowns.
"Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
Repeating. Have you ever heard people call Trump a clown? A entertaining clown show? Go read page 111 of that 1985 book. It isn't about Donald Trump, it's about We The People being attracted to clowns.
Mastodon users are clowning all the time with dumb as fuck memes and simplistic 1-bit logic Democrat vs. Republican mindsets. The problem with the USA is HDTV and Mastodon, Reddit, TCP/IP speed.