Man, every time someone goes “I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed” you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.
If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that’s a problem.
If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don’t have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on “but the world is shit”, more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.
It’s not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.
Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.
Man, every time someone goes “I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed” you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.
If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that’s a problem.
If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don’t have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on “but the world is shit”, more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.
It’s not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.
Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.