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Re:We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake ... by Miredly on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:20PM (#17594192)
I'm sorry, but your example falls a little flat when you look at how Fox News became the lynchpin of the shit-show the US is sinking in to right now.

People adapted to it, sure- but that's the problem.

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Re:We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake ... by danShumway on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:01PM (#17594493)
Do we have evidence that Fox News on the television is significantly more disruptive than, say, radio programs[0] were before it?

0: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/86-man-of-the-people

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Re:We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake ... by Spivak on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#17594465)
If a single TV station had the power you describe you would think they might be a little more successful at using it by now. Not saying they have no effect, but if the station never existed I don't think our history would be drastically different.
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Re:We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake ... by gowld on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:58PM (#17595924)
What's make you think they are unsuccessful?

Sure, a TV station can't annoint a President of whatever. The power to destroy is a weaker power than the power to create, but is still an immense power.

Rupert Murdoch's lifelong business philosophy is that all information gatekeepers should be destroyed, so that no one's opinion (or facts) are elevated over any other's. It's pure libertarian-democracy of ideas that throws the baby (education and critical thinking) out with the bathwater (suppression of outsider voices). The modern "Internet of Trolls" is the culmination of his philosophy.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/jul/18/reb...

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