Karoline Leavitt has seemingly given her fans a rare glimpse into her inner world, as she gets to grips with 'living under constant pressure' from working with Donald Trump
I don’t know who this Jack person is but it seems like you know a lot about someone you don’t want to know anything about. Also have never heard of “truth broker” but that sounds like something to avoid as much as an “influencer”. Do people wear this title willingly?
But I would agree that a lot of once-respectable or thought-to-have-been-respectable outlets have been twisting headlines for clicks. The New Republic is one that I subscribe to for what I thought was valuable reporting but every day it’s just full of narrative-enforcing click bait, similar to what you’ve described. Time to unsub.
The greater problem is that responsible journalism has a hard time staying in business when it competes with 15 seconds of rage bait. Our attention spans are minuscule and we don’t want or are unable to pay for anything that promotes authenticity. Nervermind “the algorithm” pushing salacious content over informative content and how you have little control over what you take in.
And it’s just going to get worse as time goes on. John Stewart and Amanpour were talking a bit about this on Monday’s show.
Yes, admittedly I go through cycles of churning through content. There was a brief period some months ago when his videos were… still clickbait-y but the information provided in them was actually news. Now it’s mostly just a circlejerk about how bad the Trump admin is which, yes I think we can all agree with that. What I dislike about him is how he leverages his platform to, as I said, monologue with unending eye contact. I have since unsubscribed, yet the algorithm sure does want me to keep seeing his videos.
To question of ‘Do people wear this title willingly?’, yes he absolutely does — he makes sure to remind his audience regularly in his monologues.
There are content providers like Meidas Touch that I think are… good. At this point in my life I’m extremely skeptical of anything that tries to send me a message, which is probably a valuable thing to live by if it weren’t so god damned exhausting. Which I think is the point regarding the bad actors trying to undermine public trust in news organizations.
I appreciate you taking the time to write your message. It is refreshing to know that, even if mine is colored by my personal frustrations, that there are people who share my state of mind. I’ll have to watch the discussion between Stewart and Amanpour.
I don’t know who this Jack person is but it seems like you know a lot about someone you don’t want to know anything about. Also have never heard of “truth broker” but that sounds like something to avoid as much as an “influencer”. Do people wear this title willingly?
But I would agree that a lot of once-respectable or thought-to-have-been-respectable outlets have been twisting headlines for clicks. The New Republic is one that I subscribe to for what I thought was valuable reporting but every day it’s just full of narrative-enforcing click bait, similar to what you’ve described. Time to unsub.
The greater problem is that responsible journalism has a hard time staying in business when it competes with 15 seconds of rage bait. Our attention spans are minuscule and we don’t want or are unable to pay for anything that promotes authenticity. Nervermind “the algorithm” pushing salacious content over informative content and how you have little control over what you take in.
And it’s just going to get worse as time goes on. John Stewart and Amanpour were talking a bit about this on Monday’s show.
Yes, admittedly I go through cycles of churning through content. There was a brief period some months ago when his videos were… still clickbait-y but the information provided in them was actually news. Now it’s mostly just a circlejerk about how bad the Trump admin is which, yes I think we can all agree with that. What I dislike about him is how he leverages his platform to, as I said, monologue with unending eye contact. I have since unsubscribed, yet the algorithm sure does want me to keep seeing his videos.
To question of ‘Do people wear this title willingly?’, yes he absolutely does — he makes sure to remind his audience regularly in his monologues.
There are content providers like Meidas Touch that I think are… good. At this point in my life I’m extremely skeptical of anything that tries to send me a message, which is probably a valuable thing to live by if it weren’t so god damned exhausting. Which I think is the point regarding the bad actors trying to undermine public trust in news organizations.
I appreciate you taking the time to write your message. It is refreshing to know that, even if mine is colored by my personal frustrations, that there are people who share my state of mind. I’ll have to watch the discussion between Stewart and Amanpour.