Re: Re: 2020 vs. 2021
  By: Sean Dennis to Mike Powell on Mon Dec 06 2021 05:07 pm

 > -=> Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-
 > 
 >  MP> Probably the best way to deal with many things these days.  
 > 
 > Indeed.  The "news" is a fool's errand these days.
 > 
 > -- Sean
 > 
 > ... If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
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I think it was The Gift of Fear which recommended people not to pay attention to
the media, because it
made you afraid of stuff that didn't matter to you, and made you lose focus of
the things that were
actually dangerous for you.

I reached the conclusion that most of the problems the public is concerned with
are manufactured with
Spain's anti-dog panic. The news managed to get people scared of any dog bigger
than 45 kg in a country
in which there has never been a problem with dog attacks or anything.

I work at speciallized press and I have worked with activist press, and the
trend seems to be for
journals and the like to stick to news that sell. So it pays to focus on certain
subjects so they "become
a thing" and have a recognizeable brand. I have noticed that news and posts that
have a recognizeable
"brand" tend to generate more people sharing links with other people, they get
more eyes on e-journals...
so e-journals are incentiviced to inflate one or two subjects in a given
timeframe, so people seeks
information about those subjects and finds you.

The problem is that in technical press it is harmless (journals full of
"Security" articles, "Raspberry
Pi" articles) but in general press it is devastating (journals full of "Dog"
articles cause the neighbors
to sue you because you have dogs).

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