RE: Information Wars

[eren67]

Quite a questioning and informative post on the topics you mentioned. The parts about technology and media took my attention most on it.

To me, scientific developments has served for military purposes at first and new technologies has always been introduced and let for public use after a better or a newer one invented for the same purpose. I must state that I may be totally wrong or right to some extent, too. Who knows I may be misinformed due to the infollution created by media and social media lately because there are so many conspiracy theories out there.

Difference reports of media is probably a worldwide problem that most countries may be suffering from. Unfortunately in many of them those differences are not restricted by only a few topics. It is almost in every topic like politics, sports, vaccines (not only about Covid19), art, movies, education, etc. The list can go on. Unfortunately, those differences create a great disagreement on even simple issues among people which may lead to serious problems for public peace. People tend to defend what they are imposed blindly.

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[scholaris]

Thank you for your response and compliment. I'm flattered. Sometimes, my wife criticizes me and my sons for having tunnel vision on any particular topic. We see a thing, and we must pursue it. It's not so different than anyone else, actually.

In the case of communicating information, nothing could be further from a falsehood. We can only see in one direction. We must contemplate varying points of view to understand a topic to the max extent of our abilities.

We rush to report the truth and sacrifice accuracy for the sake of notoriety.

Regarding technology, a lot of the research papers out there are quite legitimate but aren't adequately covered. The media has three things working against them:

• First, it is time. They only have a limited amount of time allotted for communicating the tech.
• The second, is notoriety. The flashier the report, the more attention it gets.
• The last, and most important, is the effect of sensationalism. We allow ourselves to be drawn into a scandal by not using the emotional intelligence within us. We fail to demand the accuracy reporting warrants for any variety of reasons...and then, we complain when things are not as accurate as we would like.

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[eren67]

Regarding technology, a lot of the research papers out there are quite legitimate but aren't adequately covered. The media has three things working against them:
First, it is time. They only have a limited amount of time allotted for communicating the tech.
The second, is notoriety. The flashier the report, the more attention it gets.
The last, and most important, is the effect of sensationalism. We allow ourselves to be drawn into a scandal by not using the emotional intelligence within us. We fail to demand the accuracy reporting warrants for any variety of reasons...and then, we complain when things are not as accurate as we would like.

That's so true.

Thank you for your reply too Sir.

I think it is not criticism. Until we get married, it is our mothers, then wives become as much concerned as them about us :)