This is a perfect description for what 24-hour infotainment media outlets were built to…

… will mention a few considerations that help to account for the fact that it is currently so great. Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more excessive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled — whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others — to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant. Closely related instances a… will mention a few considerations that help to account for the fact that it is currently so great. Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more excessive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled — whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others — to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant. Closely related instances arise from the widespread conviction that it is the responsibility of a c…

The Weirding, pt 1.

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Kerry

D.A. Kirk

1 min readAug 26, 2020

This is a perfect description for what 24-hour infotainment media outlets were built to do--inundate the general public with "bullshit" like false and/or misleading narratives, contextless quotes that make politicians sound like they're saying something different than what's intended, and cherry-picked bits of information that paint incomplete pictures of reality and guide people to the wrong conlcusions, all for the sake of better ratings and increased advertising revenue.

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Outer space enthusiast. Japanese history junkie. I write about politics, culture, and mental illness. Disagreement is a precursor to progress.

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