Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?

Re:Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you'... by wwweston on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:01PM (#21364437)

This is a bit like missing the distinction between, say, systemic if unintended background racism and ideological white supremacy.

There's the matter of both motive and degree. Of course newsprint journalism always had its issues (heh). Of course there's always been various struggles to rise to journalistic standards of objective reporting. And of course there's always been people with agendas who wanted to bend reporting a certain way.

It still wasn't anywhere near as common for outlets to aspire to be Pravda or for individuals to aspire to read from an outlet that was.

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Re:Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you'... by tsimionescu on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:27PM (#21364589)

There are many differences.

For one, few in the Soviet Union trusted Pravda, whileoat people in the US trust the picture of the world that the newspapers present. So, while the US newspapers were overall far more correct than Pravda, they were nevertheless much more effective propaganda tools, when they did choose, intentionally or through deep-seated biases, to 'massage' the truth.

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