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Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’
(www.theguardian.com)
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I tune out the new because a huge fucking portion of it isn't fucking news.
Biased opinion pieces and straight up ads make up the bulk of it.
I don't even want to get going about the state of science news. It's no wonder our society doesn't care about things like the CDC or NASA anymore, there is no stable source of truth for actual developments and discoveries.
When every goddamn news feed runs headlines like "SCIENTISTS HORRIFIED BY STRUCTURES FOUND UNDERNEATH MARS" or "ASTRONOMERS BAFFLED AT FLOATING EYEBALL PLANETS" (both actual headlines) is it any wonder nobody cares about funding missions to land probes on Europa or that people don't trust mRNA vaccines?
I hate, hate, HATE when they've done to science reporting. I have to sit through employees and coworkers every day talking about real mermaids and the healing power of essential oils and magic water crystals curing cancer and so on. For the average person who can only get their news from a passing feed and has time only for headlines, why would we expect them to be able to discern the difference between scams and grifts and actual science? It's frustrating and will do far more damage to us than the political divide in the long run.
Amen.
Technology is as bad. It's all just ads for phones. There is fuck all concerning actual developments in.... you know. FUCKING TECHNOLOGY.
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