“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.”— Zachary Kagan, medium.comTagged: 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.”— Zachary Kagan, medium.comTagged: 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 design…”— Zachary Kagan, medium.comTagged: Fake News, Media, The internet, Journalism
“But some people want to believe that Trump can be tricked into following any old schmuck that uses the right hashtags. Some people want to believe that he’s just some dope that somehow, without really trying, has bullshitted his way into the presidency. But neither case is true, and the progressives…”— Zachary Kagan, medium.comTagged: Social Media, Trump, Echo chambers, Why we believe what we believe