This is just something I’ve been wondering about recently.
I’m really not into conspiracy theories whatsoever because they’re generally a load of ridiculous nonsense. But this is something that’s played on my mind for a while now and although I’ve done a little digging into it I’d be curious to see what everyone else thinks?
A few months ago I remember clicking on one of the main news sites and around third or fourth down the list was a horrendous story about a female police officer in Australia who’d along with her colleague stopped someone for speeding.
Basically there was a crash and the officer ended up dying, yet the person who they’d stopped was (verbally) completely out of order as the poor woman laid dying on the road.
This story was on that site and after a skim through it became obvious that it was actually on all of the main sites despite being on the exact opposite side of the world and having no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country other than to make you feel awful once you’d read it.
This was something that I’d been thinking about for a while at the time so I started doing a bit of basic research.
All of the main news sites that night showed the same top 10 stories in various different orders and with various different spins, but basically they were pretty much the same top ten whatever site you looked at, and I’m pretty sure that if you did the same thing now this second you’d find exactly the same...
I understand that there’s lots of different background reasons that we’ve ended up with the media that we’ve got (owners behind certain platforms, traditional right vs left etc etc).
But despite all of that, and in a time where communication is incomparable to 30 years ago. How have we ended up where we’ve ended up?
I’m really not into conspiracy theories whatsoever because they’re generally a load of ridiculous nonsense. But this is something that’s played on my mind for a while now and although I’ve done a little digging into it I’d be curious to see what everyone else thinks?
A few months ago I remember clicking on one of the main news sites and around third or fourth down the list was a horrendous story about a female police officer in Australia who’d along with her colleague stopped someone for speeding.
Basically there was a crash and the officer ended up dying, yet the person who they’d stopped was (verbally) completely out of order as the poor woman laid dying on the road.
This story was on that site and after a skim through it became obvious that it was actually on all of the main sites despite being on the exact opposite side of the world and having no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country other than to make you feel awful once you’d read it.
This was something that I’d been thinking about for a while at the time so I started doing a bit of basic research.
All of the main news sites that night showed the same top 10 stories in various different orders and with various different spins, but basically they were pretty much the same top ten whatever site you looked at, and I’m pretty sure that if you did the same thing now this second you’d find exactly the same...
I understand that there’s lots of different background reasons that we’ve ended up with the media that we’ve got (owners behind certain platforms, traditional right vs left etc etc).
But despite all of that, and in a time where communication is incomparable to 30 years ago. How have we ended up where we’ve ended up?
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