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Wired's Attack on Privacy

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115 points snvzz | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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someonehere ◴[22 Oct 24 03:42 UTC] No.41910990[source]▶
I’ve been a subscriber to Wired for almost the entirety of the publication. I also subscribe to their RSS feed. Lately they have been heavily pushing articles painting conservatives as being the most destructive in tech, politics, and society. Their bias has been overwhelming to the point where I feel someone is pulling their strings to push a narrative. You can argue however you want about conservatives, but Wired is losing my ability to like them. They’re becoming a political rag. The Verge has also been dabbling in articles like this one as well lately too. There are forces here trying to influence the media recently.
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Dalewyn[dead post] ◴[22 Oct 24 04:27 UTC] No.41911196[source]▶
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unethical_ban ◴[22 Oct 24 16:07 UTC] No.41915732[source]▶
I challenge the notion that "media" or journalism as a concept are bad for society, or that real journalism is impossible.
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1. Dalewyn ◴[22 Oct 24 21:54 UTC] No.41919115[source]▶
Media in the sense of sensationlist dopamine hits is bad for society in the same way smoking is bad for your lungs. It'll get you high, but you will become worse off for it because you waste so much time and energy being artificially angry about shit that doesn't matter to you. The worst case is when the media is being sensationalist propagandists on someone's dime, then you're artificially angry about shit strictly for someone else's benefit.

Proper journalism, which the media is not, is the so-called Fourth Estate which is of great benefit to society and it isn't impossible. However, proper journalism like any product of labor costs money. Most people by and large do not pay for content that isn't sensationalist, and proper journalism cannot take public money from the government due to conflicts of interest.

The practical prerequisites to enable proper journalism therefore make it impossible.