Cloud = big brother

Posted Aug 16, 2021 9:46 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Cloud = big brother by marcH
Parent article: Scanning "private" content

> "Carefully balanced", numbers, science and complexity are unfortunately all dead; simple people watching cable news and social media demand yes/no answers.

I think you mean simple JOURNALISTS. Many people probably would like more detail, unfortunately the gutter press has learnt that a lot of people enjoy watching journalists and politicians fighting, and as always, the bad drives out the good - decent investigative journalism has died ...

Cheers,
Wol

Cloud = big brother

Posted Aug 17, 2021 16:21 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> I think you mean simple JOURNALISTS.

I don't and I respectfully disagree. I think journalism is one of the markets where there is pretty decent competition and where crap wins because that's what most people "consume" preferably, not because of a lack of hard working (but underpaid) journalists trying to do the Right Thing. Because crap is emotional, "infotaining" or free or all of the above. Even when we understand that "if it's free, we're the product" it's still hard to resist and easy to fall for it.