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Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low
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Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low
That doesn’t really matter when the media knows that the more it reports on lurid crime, the more people pay attention, meaning the more they can charge for advertising.
The consumer of commercial news is not the customer, they’re the product.
Mmm… well it does matter from the context that actual violence is down. When we’re talking about violent crimes.
It doesn’t matter when talking about this other problem, that the media is essentially a constitutionally protected capitalism and greed factory.
It doesn’t matter in terms of what people believe, how they vote and what policies are enacted since those are all based on fear.
Are you implying that the majority of people don’t look at facts and statistics?
Do Facebook facts count?
Do you have any evidence or data to support this conclusion, or are you participating in the behavior?
Plenty, take a look at anyone that votes for tRump.
Do you seriously need evidence that most people don’t research what they hear on the news?
Yes. Because not everything that appears intuitive, is fact. This is how disinformation is spread. It is a vulnerability in the human psychology.
If you were right and people researched things they heard on the news, disinformation wouldn’t spread. And Biden wouldn’t have to say that violent crime is historically low.
I mean I have no idea why you think he would bother saying it if most people researched this stuff.
But it does matter. It matters very much that they’re voting and behaving based on things that are not actually real. It matters that Biden’s telling the truth, and evidence supports him. Does it mean his message is going to resonate with voters? Probably not. But it goes to the heart of our current predicament to observe that the world that exists in people’s heads doesn’t resemble the one they actually live in. We are in a self-fulfilling doom loop.
If we grant that crime is down but that Biden should act like it isn’t down because people think it’s up, then we’re venturing off into a very dark wilderness where nothing is true and facts no longer matter. That’s a world where people like Trump thrive.