[baby]

In their current form, medias:

1. do not care about creating panics or damaging society

2. are incentivized to provide click-baity to-the-minute reporting.

How to fix this?

Maybe regulation, even though dangerous in this freedom of speech territory.

One thing I was thinking (inspired by one of Andrew Yang's point) is to have a press tax to fund a delayed international news outlet.

It changes the incentives: the media has no funding issue and is not incentivized to attract more readers; and it changes the impact: delaying each piece of news to wait until more information is available is good.

[throwawayjava]

We already have some obscure bureaucratic infrastructure in place from the 70s called the "public broadcasting service". It's funded and everything. Could just re-purpose that I suppose.

Perhaps the public broadcasting service could have a nightly program that dedicates an entire hour of primetime to this type of reporting. And we could even name it in Lehrer's name! Of course in that case we should also give MacNeil credit as well. So perhaps the show could be called something like the "MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour"!

;-)

[baby]

I’m not native so I’m not sure I got your comment :D

[throwawayjava]

You suggested a tax-funded news outlet that could focus on publishing well-sourced stories instead of keeping up with the hourly news cycle.

What you are asking for already exists [1]. In fact, the article we're commenting on is about the guy who co-hosted it [2]. Up until a few years ago, the program was even called the "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" [3].

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_NewsHour#The_MacNeil/Lehre...

[tbyehl]

> How to fix this?

Stop clicking.

[baby]

how to fix at scale: don't blame the user, fix the service.

[tbyehl]

The service is working as intended.