News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company. Parent comment

Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by selectodude on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:22PM (#37054179)
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

-Steve Jobs

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by tootie on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:41PM (#37054453)
Ironic considering Jobs conspired to fix prices with media partners including News Corp. Either way, network TV isn't the only news. There's plenty of non-profit news and non-predatory news in the world besides network TV.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by musicale on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:40AM (#37059398)
Wasn't there more to this? I can't find the exact quote, but I believe Jobs also said that he doesn't blame people for this because after a hard day of work (etc.) you really want to relax and turn your brain off, and TV is perfect for that - in fact you burn fewer calories watching TV than you do sleeping.

He also said "We don’t think that televisions and personal computers are going to merge. We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."

Of course he was kind of wrong about televisions and PCs not merging - see youtube, netflix, Apple TV, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by synecdoche on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @10:18AM (#37063026)
Mainstream media is not blameless in the least. Pushing psychological buttons to create addiction to what is very little else than entertainment and biased opinion. Rarely if ever are there references to sources. Instead there are interpretations and nth hand accounts that you are expected to accept as is. It's there plain for everyone to see, yet rarely is it taken seriously for what it is, propaganda.
[ Parent | on HN ]