This is exactly what I’ve been experiencing. Everything from entertainment to historic events. I’m not going sit here and pretend like I had all the answers as a kid but it sure does feel like i was provided a much better baseline understanding of the world and its past, than some of the kids today. There also seems to be a difficulty with some to sit down and research stuff especially If it’s not a super edited short video or headline.
Well, traditional news sources have lowered the bar enough that social media isn’t really much worse in a lot of cases. Especially considering how many “news” there is about social media content; it makes it seem that something like Twitter is the “source” that the news is citing. The lines have been blurred, seemingly intentionally so it’s hard to blame people for not having a good barometer who grew up in an ecosystem of generalized enshitification.
I think of it this way. Me, my father and my grandfather all read the newspaper the same way. We all went to the store with cash in our pockets. We all talked to bank clerks. Another thing is that there were a lot more historic dramas when we were coming up. Old style candle stick phones and telegraph operators were a common trope.
This is exactly what I’ve been experiencing. Everything from entertainment to historic events. I’m not going sit here and pretend like I had all the answers as a kid but it sure does feel like i was provided a much better baseline understanding of the world and its past, than some of the kids today. There also seems to be a difficulty with some to sit down and research stuff especially If it’s not a super edited short video or headline.
People today think social media is a news source
Well, traditional news sources have lowered the bar enough that social media isn’t really much worse in a lot of cases. Especially considering how many “news” there is about social media content; it makes it seem that something like Twitter is the “source” that the news is citing. The lines have been blurred, seemingly intentionally so it’s hard to blame people for not having a good barometer who grew up in an ecosystem of generalized enshitification.
I’ll also add opinion pieces aren’t news articles
Tbh if feels like 80% of modern news sources are just pulling trending headlines from social media and summarizing the top tweets about it anyway…
Pictures with text on them contain the most reliable facts
Poor attention skills leading to attention grabbing behavior because of years of instant gratificaion.
I think of it this way. Me, my father and my grandfather all read the newspaper the same way. We all went to the store with cash in our pockets. We all talked to bank clerks. Another thing is that there were a lot more historic dramas when we were coming up. Old style candle stick phones and telegraph operators were a common trope.