The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media (washingtonpost.com) | |
from... the post?! =) It's interesting because Jeff Bezos himself decided to share his 2 cents. But I think he misses the point - he tries to frame it as a 'people don't see how trustworthy we are' problem whereas I think it's a much bigger problem. If you watch Succession, you cannot trust the media anymore, haha. I don't think the problem is that people don't realize trustworthiness. The problem is the misalignment where journalists produce a public good but have to sell it. Also, the times of "all you can consume" content have created an audience that expects to get everything for free - hence the ad model. Of course, being bought by billionaire owners is also a questionable path for media - especially when it's assumed that they'll pursue their very own agenda and use it as a propaganda machine rather than something else. > It's interesting because Jeff Bezos himself decided to share his 2 cents. Highly recommended to read some of that article's comment section, which is frankly completely insane. Makes me wonder if we could prevent such a battlefield from happening on here (No ideas how we could) Wow, almost 20k comments. Haven't seen that many even on Twitter in a long time I avoid comments everywhere but here and (maybe) stack overflow. They are always quite trash. Yes this is a thing. Saw this piece by Rebecca Solnit (respected American writer) in the Guardian today. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/29/the-guardian-no-billionaire-owner > The Guardian is unafraid. And it’s independent. (No billionaire bosses.) In this media climate, those qualities are as rare as they are crucial to good journalism. and even .. > The Guardian has become a major US source, in terms both of its readership and its coverage of the local and national scene. And in fact isn’t this why we Kiwi. To have an independent community curated crypto news feed so we get all the angles and we can be critical and have our own opinions. Exactly. Today we spoke with @timdaub about the other crypto media and how much biased they are. One obvious thing is that you end up in your own Twitter bubble. But another one is that the conversation on CT is heavily influenced by VCs and influencers. Even on Farcaster, people live in this Base/ZORA/Farcaster bubble. And I won't even mention the outlets like Cointelegraph that can even post a title stating that BTC liquidity will go to Cardano... So if you were an Ethereum builder and you want to make sense of it, it's hard. And one bad decision and you spend a year building your product on Luna that goes to zero. So to survive you need "idea alpha" - best technical, product and market ideas out there. And you also need people to discuss it with, so you can do some reality checks of the VC- & influencer-promoted stuff. And I do believe that Kiwi's role is to help Ethereum builders do exactly that. Get a full, 360 picture of the ideas out there, and meet great people along the way. Can you elaborate on bias in the crypto media? Do you mean like which coins or political? Primarily coins and tech. Crypto narrative is heavily influenced by VCs and they try to shill the tech they invested in. So if you listened to some of them in 2021, you'd build your project on Terra :) makes sense, thanks for opinion | |