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Outrage Machine

News, media, social media, moral panic, emotional farming, awareness theater, protest theater, and the gap between outrage and impact.

3 posts

Reading Headlines Is Not Being Informed

A headline can tell you what to feel before it tells you what happened. Reading it is not the same as understanding reality.

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4 Min
By: Chris Markl

The Dumbest Take in the News Today

A recurring format for the take so confident, so stupid, and so perfectly optimized for attention that it deserves a small civic autopsy.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl

This Headline Is Emotional Farming

Some headlines inform you. Others harvest your nervous system.

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2 Min
By: Chris Markl

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