| Just a few years ago these guys had the main mediums of information covered, sure there was internet, but up until now it wasn't in palms of everyones hands. And this new medium tends to be decentrilised, cheap for everyone to access and anyone can be the creator of content. And on the issue of quality of information, sure it can be shit. Memes, number of character restrictions etc, forum moderators being biased, thumbs ups and downs do seem like we are going back to coloseum times, boos and hoorays, instead of stating our arguments in words. It kind of does seem like we are going backwards. However big media is full of shit too, is censored in one way or the other, and is highly susceptible to corruption. Truth (the whole truth and nothing the truth) cannot be presented in 2000-3000 words. Those people at CERN take petabytes of information to be sure what is truth, on the stuff that is real and measurable. And even when they come up with an answer they say "We are 5 000 000 to 1 sure that this particle exists". And what we are mostly talking here about are abstract philosophical concepts and social sciences like economy, law, ethics, psychology etc. Unmeasurable things (at least pretty far from accurately and completely). These philosphical, wordsy, matters are thus super easy to manipulate with. Fake news, flops, deepfakes, resonating echo chambers.....All I see is big media being scared of loosing their power. |