Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
by EGreg on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:39PM
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Yeah the Google -> Alphabet, Facebook -> Meta, Twitter -> X happened all pretty close to one another.
I mean hey, I can understand why someone like Blackwater renamed themselves to the more innocuous-sounding “Academi” LOL. But why does the media go along with it?
For the same reason they go along with other things, like covering Trump 24/7 in 2015-2016 even though they hated him. The incentives push them that way. A lot of things just go on autopilot. “This is what everyone is doing so we must too. This is the controversy so we must cover it before others do”.
I had a conversation about Capitalism and Freedom of Speech with Noam Chomsky twice on my show:
I mean hey, I can understand why someone like Blackwater renamed themselves to the more innocuous-sounding “Academi” LOL. But why does the media go along with it?
For the same reason they go along with other things, like covering Trump 24/7 in 2015-2016 even though they hated him. The incentives push them that way. A lot of things just go on autopilot. “This is what everyone is doing so we must too. This is the controversy so we must cover it before others do”.
I had a conversation about Capitalism and Freedom of Speech with Noam Chomsky twice on my show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JtMSpMrOw
(Earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPZ8rSESZo)
It’s an emergent behavior of the system. Here is George Carlin with a darker take than me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0OJEFlq7A