• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    It’s simpler than that.

    Media companies are for-profit. Their boards and executive leadership are out to make money first, and be a media company second. These days, that means leaning into dopamine-generating sensationalist headlines that elicit strong emotional reactions from readers and viewers. It’s designed, like many other things in our hyper-consumerist society, to be addictive. The truth is often a causality in that dynamic.