"Second, if you’re making the more sophisticated argument that coverage is disproportionate then you need to look in a mirror. News sites ultimately give people what they want. The online mob will click 70 links in a row about the submersible, and maybe one link on the migrant disaster. This is what you, the crowd, asked for."
Thank god, 100%. I try not to get sucked into too many arguments online, but one that I'm a sucker for is "the media doesn't want you to see that, though!"
It's like, no, the media wants you, the customer, to see what *you* want to see.
WRT Zuck and Elon fighting....I am very curious about this phenomenon of billionaires fighting for the entertainment of the masses as opposed to the other way around. But yeah, anyone with any modicum of experience in a combat sport or martial art and the sense a benevolent creator gave a box of rocks will know that Zuck would paste Elon.
If the Zuck can punch Emerald Stink in the face for 3 minutes and get away with it, good for both of them, but I think the Australia thing is likely to be more consequential (assuming it happens). What happens to Elon isn't really important, at the end of the day. The important things are his effort to turn twitter into the next gab/parler and the responses we see to that effort.
"Second, if you’re making the more sophisticated argument that coverage is disproportionate then you need to look in a mirror. News sites ultimately give people what they want. The online mob will click 70 links in a row about the submersible, and maybe one link on the migrant disaster. This is what you, the crowd, asked for."
Thank god, 100%. I try not to get sucked into too many arguments online, but one that I'm a sucker for is "the media doesn't want you to see that, though!"
It's like, no, the media wants you, the customer, to see what *you* want to see.
WRT Zuck and Elon fighting....I am very curious about this phenomenon of billionaires fighting for the entertainment of the masses as opposed to the other way around. But yeah, anyone with any modicum of experience in a combat sport or martial art and the sense a benevolent creator gave a box of rocks will know that Zuck would paste Elon.
If the Zuck can punch Emerald Stink in the face for 3 minutes and get away with it, good for both of them, but I think the Australia thing is likely to be more consequential (assuming it happens). What happens to Elon isn't really important, at the end of the day. The important things are his effort to turn twitter into the next gab/parler and the responses we see to that effort.