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The news barons of the past foolishly conflated the two, or at least assumed the first was optimal at producing the second.
Today, we’ve learned better — there are far more effective strategies available, largely by exploiting our natural search for drama.
That is, the reporting was good at its goal of good reporting; but this was not the correct goal to have.
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The news barons of the past foolishly conflated the two, or at least assumed the first was optimal at producing the second.
Today, we’ve learned better — there are far more effective strategies available, largely by exploiting our natural search for drama.
That is, the reporting was good at its goal of good reporting; but this was not the correct goal to have.