3 Quotations Found

The media gives us what we want: something to fear, the scary thing, the dark thing. That’s what’s going to attract our attention. Also, we have a huge confirmation bias. If you’re afraid of…[something], you’ll be attracted to information that reinforces the fear.

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I guess it would be an open question: If the media is playing to our inherent natures, is that our fault or … [ Read more ]

Author: Christopher Bader | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, News | Media | Publishing

…technology’s just gonna get better and better and it’s just going to get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone, with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that’s fine, in low doses. But if it’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re … [ Read more ]

Author: David Foster Wallace | Subjects: IT | Technology, Life & Society, News | Media | Publishing, Personal Improvement

If we attribute too much power and potential to the media in the power struggle between the branches, we will be falling prey to mistaking the media for the message. And if we fall prey to that mistake, the inevitable result will be a tendency to shape the message, in this case the legislative process, to fit the media.

Author: John B. Anderson | Subjects: News | Media | Publishing, Politics & Public Policy