The chapter explores how storytelling in news media has shifted from informative reporting to confirming readers' beliefs. It discusses the evolution of news storytelling, the influence of fiction on human behavior, and the psychological impact of narratives in shaping human perception and understanding. The speakers also delve into the power of storytelling in conveying truths effectively and the tendency for individuals to emotionally invest in fictional stories, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It’s fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.
Expect to learn why our mental model of the world assumes people are just like us, why Narcissists tend to inject themselves into every story no matter how unrelated or tenuous, the role of Postjournalism in a world of fake news, why we navigate the world through stories and not statistics or facts, why people specialise in things they are actually bad at and much more...