Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "How We Conned the British Press | Fakes, Frauds & Scammers" video.

  1. Interesting... and also a bit nostalgic I guess? The good times when all people had to worry about was a mix of rushing and copy pasting of traditional media to get the scoop, how information flowed, news agency replication and all that... which would eventually get to light and then appear back in the press as a scandal of lies and whatnot. Nowadays people are getting news straight from unreliable sources, the content vary between straight up scam all the way up to cult-like manipulation, traditional press became even worse because they are often fishing for info on these exact same sources when they didn't already become a vehicle for political propaganda, there are no follow up on things that they got wrong, it's all in the favor of clicks and views, everything has become far more sensationalized, most are in such a state of disrepair bordering on bankruptcy that it's made by smaller and smaller staffs, pressured from all sides, and forced to put out content that is evermore taken from news agencies instead of produced locally. So, it was a pretty interesting exercise for the time to point out failures of traditional media... but also, we kinda ended up taking a route where this seems very tame in comparison to what is happening nowadays. A badly researched, badly produced, piece of news that spread out like wildfire through the entire media landscape only for it to be proven wrong with lots of the press admitting no mistake afterwards? Yeesh, it's almost a weekly to daily occurrence...
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