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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:31:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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   The reason the political press is so manipulable, the thing that’s made them such an easy mark for the con, is that political coverage long ago stopped being proper journalism.

   It’s reality TV: assembling pulpy entertainment from carefully edited fragments of real people, manipulated into the shape of narrative drama. Is it any wonder a reality TV star knows how to work that system?

   #uspol

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   Paris Marx (parismarx@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 02:15:10 JST Paris Marx

   Tech critics are used to being disingenuously denigrated, but Casey Newton’s screed against AI skeptics illustrates a deeper problem with tech journalism.

   It needs to be confronted if some of the most powerful people in the world are ever to be properly held to account.

   https://disconnect.blog/dismissing-critics-has-real-and-dangerous-consequences/

   #tech #journalism #media #ai #criticism

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   Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 01:53:35 JST Seasons of Jason

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   ^ Buried in there is some commentary about the game industry:

   "It felt like the conversations happening in the game industry were becoming increasingly vitriolic, at times reminding me of TMZ rather than anything resembling journalism.

   It just didn’t feel like people were celebrating games anymore, instead preferring to attack them and the developers who devote their lives to creating them. Reveling in being offended by them.

   Drowning in toxicity instead of swimming in fascination."

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   Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:25:14 JST Peter Cohen

   Real talk: After 25 years, I've pretty much given up on a career in tech journalism.

   It's no secret that journalism, in general, is an apocalyptic wasteland. It has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with compounding lousy publishing business decisions that go back to the dawn of the public Internet.

   In May I took a job far outside of tech. It's modest but stable, and for the first time in years I'm not worried I'll be kicked to the curb tomorrow.