The “Do Something About It” Club

Re:The “Do Something About It” Club by skeeter2020 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:45AM (#37535227)

I believe this is a relatively recent construct, because "the news" isn't really about that anymore. Even the last hold-outs, the national or public outlets have stopped presenting balanced "state of the world" and shifted to either negative, headline, click-driving OR agenda-based propaganda. My wife is still very in-touch with current events and finds it hilarious when I tell her about this "new topic" when in reality I'm coming in to the third or fourth wave of the story fresh. My life is better without "The News" IMO.

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Re:The “Do Something About It” Club by rsingel on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:21AM (#37535557)

Your particular life might be, but it's likely because you are comfortable.

The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also was in no way how news started.

You want your power company to not dump coal waste in rivers? Get some press.

You want buildings to be retired to be accessible because you are a wheelchair user? Get the press to care about it.

If you are a service member or a NYC firefighter who wants the government to be accountable for giving you cancer because of burn pits or 9/11 toxic waste? Hammer the gov in the press

You want to stop the NSA from spying on Americans? Leak insider docs to the press.

You want better media? Subscribe and pay for it.

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Re:The “Do Something About It” Club by AndrewKemendo on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:47AM (#37535237)

…the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

- Thomas Jefferson

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-l...

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