Captain Caveman wrote on May 14
th, 2019 at 6:47am:
aquascoot wrote on May 14
th, 2019 at 6:23am:
however biased print media is, it is nowhere as much an echo chamber as news sourced online.
70 % of people now get the majority of their news on facebook, google or twitter.
these companies exist ONLY to keep you on their sites as long as possible to monetise your viewing.
2 things gaurantee eyeballs.
1 people like reading stories they agree with. you like a story by get up or you like a picture of jesus and they instantly have you profiled. they actual understand you better then you understand yourself. the machine learning that they do cant really be understood by humans. so they will just feed you a constant stream of stuff to make you feel good about your beliefs because people like to feel good and they will stick around.
2 people have an inbuilt evolutionary behaviour to seek out danger and to engage with that. if there is a snake in the room or a fire started in the corner, you cant ignore that.
so these media companies also know that to feed you a constant flow of things to outrage you will keep your eyeballs on their site. again machine learning is so crazy that, for instance, they might know from google maps that you just had a 2 hour commute home due to traffic congestion. and the machine knows that feeding you stories about rising immigration or a new development in your area or rising petrol prices is going to push all your buttons and they will hit you with that.
or they might know that your car was just parked outside a weight watchers and the facial recognition might pick up that you are more carb bloated in the face and they will hit you with ads for make up or even more cynically stories on fat shaming or whatever. rupert could never put you into such a loop, but once you go online, you are being manipulated and fed BS just to keep you there and the machine algorythms do not give a bugger*ck about whether you are staying because you are being pandered to or you are staying because you are being fed stuff to make you angry.
even Oz Pol is a microcosm of this.
Freediver doesnt care if the info is good or legit, if some BS topic gets 10,000 views and its just bakc and forth outrage ,what does the site care.
a newspaper is there for you to vibe with the emotions you like to feel positive and negative.
if you want information, i would suggest you look elsewhere
Why do people "need to know"? Mind your own business.
Like a car crash. All the goons slowing down to take a peek. Busy bodies. Nosey fkkers. Pull over, go poke your nose inside the crashed car and have a look.... otherwise keep your eyes forward and accelerate. Actually better still, become an ambo. Then you'll get to see it all.
I have none of those sites you mention above. In fact I don't even look for news. It is only a reporters, or organisations opinion anyway. I can form an opinion without reading someone else's. Besides, I could bot care less what Donald trump said, or that harries kid is a fake, or that a cat found its way home after a night on the town.
That is where the papers win. They know most humans can't help but look and read an article....even if it does not effect them directly. They'll then talk about it with others and so forth.
Burn the paper, turn off the TV and live your own life. If we all did this then Murdoch and all his cronies would be on welfare.
captain,
good reply.
the future will belong to people who can maintain focus and be creative.
everything being done with millenials will make this harder for them.
the lack of focus from staring at a phone screen , the overstimulation from the high frequency of technology is frying the brain.
i was appalled when gillard said every child at day care needed access to an ipad as an instrument of learning.
it is an instrument of destroying the neural network.
learn to work the soil, read a long autobiography and stay off the stimulants.
thats gaming, instagram, facebook, pokies, porn, smokes, grog, drugs, sugar fat .
go for a long walk and listen to podcasts from smart people like steven covey , joe rogan, sam harris and richard dawkins or listen to audiobooks , learn to meditate and hit the gym