Re:Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump...
by csoups14 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:20PM
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Agreed. People want to be entertained, not informed.
Re:Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump...
by scrubs on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:28PM
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Great point. I made much the same before in a different way.
We're all clear Disney, Star Wars, TV is entertainment. People are not clear that Rush Limbaugh, opinion makers on podcasts, Fox, CNN, Tick-tock is also entertainment.
The straightest venue for news proper has got to be CSPAN. They're clearly there to inform not to push a point, piss you off at the other side, or any other shadow-boxing goals.
Getting people pissed off to own the liberals, the neo-cons, to own the Trump supporters is ... entertainment and it doesn't hurt (I write this cynically) it helps drives up ad-revenue.
Re:Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump...
by keybored on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:48PM
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Are you people?
Re:Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump...
by spacecadet on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:40PM
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"Are you not entertained?!"
You're assuming people _want_ to be "informed." You could build the best news apparatus in the world, the most accurate reporting, with full scale third party auditing of your results.
It likely would not change very much. Humans are not designed to lock into large scale groups and then make coordinated long term decisions together. In my opinion we should avoid doing this as much as is possible.