About the demise of newspapers and the migration to the internet:
We all get the headline news from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Firefox or whoever your ISP is based on your previous surfing history. They deliver filtered news to you because of what they've collected before - don't have to explain that to you. If you're a sports nut - you get a lot of sports news; if you surf entertainment, you get a lot of celebs.
What concerns me is the divisiveness that's growing. It's not just the headlines that we get, it's threads and blogs we visit to get information. If you're a middle-roader and lean slightly right or left, you tend to go to the places that share your own opinion, places where people all mostly agree. PfP is an example. Most of the people there are Republican, conservative, Middle America, and people with whom I have a lot in common. We all mostly agree. And I honestly believe that the news that's posted there is the way it is. It's the close to what's happening as you can get. The trolls that come around dropping bombs are mostly ignored or banned.
But go over to the left leaning threads and the atmosphere is completely different. Very hard to get straight information. But that may have to do with the fact that I've already made up my mind.
My point is that I don't got there, I don't go to HuffPo or Koz because I don't want to read that stuff.
(Just ran out of battery, so have to continue this post later.) |
