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#419 Fast From Being Furious - Joe Heschmeyer

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The Point of News Is Not to Inform the World

It actual is good to be angry over injustice in the right time and place. But when that's all we do, it flattens it and it cheapens it. We start using that as a pretext to get the cheap high of being angry. And i think we see that pretty widely. You can just look on line. There is an article that wired magazine did called, you'll be outrageda how easy it was to get you to click on this headline,. And i clicked on the headline, of course you did. So for anyone who's naive about this, the point of news is not to inform the world but to sell products. To sell products by getting a lot of clicks

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