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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by soft_dev_person on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:29AM (#13479737)
The cynical among us have been saying that nothing presented by the White house (and any other government institutions) can be trusted at face value for years. I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic.

But is that such a bad thing?

They say access journalism is dead, but access journalism is just repeating stuff said by people with power. Making them accountable is a good thing.

Trump may have unintentionally restored investigative journalism...

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by joeguilmette on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:52AM (#13480092)
>> Trump may have unintentionally restored investigative journalism...

This can happen if they can find a way to monetize text that costs 100x more to produce and has 100x less engagement than clickbait.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by halomru on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:49AM (#13480630)
If there's 10000 times less competition in investigative journalism than in clickbaiting those numbers add up to being profitable
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by marcosdumay on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:31AM (#13481578)
Maybe people will actually pay for something that isn't trash.

(Or, maybe not, who knows.)

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by okket on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:46AM (#13480330)
> But is that such a bad thing?

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by soft_dev_person on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:52AM (#13480647)
Your point may be valid, but I think the current (up until very recently, anyway) situation is just as bad.
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by ff10 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:35AM (#13480278)
> I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic.

For a transition of normative systems it seems that it is required that at some point people "don't believe in anything" anymore.

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