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The Media in 2014
Alexandre Van de Sande writes "Robin Sloan made a flash video as a "documentary" of how big enterprises like google and amazon converged medias and changed the way we see news by 2014.
It's a vision of what could be (or will be) the world with personalized media, made by peers, and the guy knows what's going on on those big heads. It ends with a sad view on which, althought some people get their news in a way they could never before, most of them just get a bunch of untrue gossip and sensasionalist trivia. And that's exactly what they wanted." This will take a few minutes to watch, but stick it out to the end. I think there's a lot in there that you really should think about.
... Right, so you take someone questioning the quality of the US media, something that many widely respected academics and media observers have been doing for years, and then blow it up into some rant about 9/11 conspiracies?
Next thing you'll be telling us that you think Chomsky is a terrorist.
Get a grip.