“People believe what they already want to believe, and they want news that already agrees with how they feel. It isn’t new and it isn’t going away.”Tagged: Fake News, Media, News, Why people believe what they believe
“This is what scares establishment media types more than anything, not that people are spreading bullshit but that they are no longer in control of what bullshit gets spread.”Tagged: Fake News, Media, News, Journalism, Why we believe what we believe
“Different outlets have been publishing sensationalist, less-than-true stories in order to sell copies since the dawn of print media. In the late-19th/early-20th century they called it yellow journalism, and after that there were tabloids, and after that attention-grabbing radio and TV stories…”Tagged: Fake News, Media, The internet, Journalism