That’s not his premise. His premise is that people aren’t reading the news they’re only reading the headlines. Regardless of whether they’re getting them from Apple or Android or Google or Facebook.
Apple News isn’t writing the headlines, they’re choosing headlines that are inflammatory to trend. Write different headlines and everything on Apple News will be about cats or other less legit news outlet inflammatory headlines. That’s what they got in trouble for, just like the facebook news feed.
As I said, Apple News is the real problem, as evidenced by them linking to the second most read article on Politico with the inflammatory headline instead of the most read one that had a hard hitting one. You don’t get picked up if you aren’t appealing to the Republicans, so a certain amount of trolling click bait deserves respect, even if I disagree with it, in my opinion. In order for an article to be most read, it has to be clicked, and the article was set up so you couldn’t miss the lede. Raising some olds’ blood pressure is a good outcome to me.
Again, that’s all fine for people who understand all of that shit. Most people don’t, they’re just getting the headlines that are presented to them by whichever company’s algorithm is doing the presenting, and they’re not clicking 95-99% of them.
How do you not get this?
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I dunno, every time it happens with me and nunn I have 3-4 people blaming me for it and telling me how great of a poster he is. A lot of people here love him and think he should post more and we should stop arguing with him lol…
How do you not get that Apple News is going to trend exciting headlines with GOP themes? How do you get this is not on the headline writers? On Washington Post.com or NYT.com you can for sure blame them for headlines, but news aggregators trend that stuff themselves. This is on the consumer not to use bad aggregators, or to force the aggregators to honestly trend stuff as opposed to doing things intended to inflame the situation. I wouldn’t touch Apple News with a 10 foot pole. I own multiple Macs and have never seen any of these notifications you’re talking about. If I did, I would remove them.
It really is stunning that you actually were going to have a career in media not understanding this basic principle.
Don’t you know JT, they’re always nunn’s way until they’re definitively not in which case he distracts us with 5,000 word screeds of delusional optimism while he shifts the goalposts so we can start a new argument.
Cool. But we need them to move like 20 more points if he’s ever getting convicted.
And if polling is, say, 57-43 in favor of impeachment, he’s not getting convicted. Therein lies the problem.
For the record, I absolutely can’t stand you as a person.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE NOBODY IS ARGUING OVER WHO TO BLAME FOR THIS.
We’re discussing the fact that these aggregators and just the headlines in general is where people get their news, like 99% of people aren’t reading 99% of these articles.
Good for you, nunn, you smart news consumer you. But who gives a fuck? Duh, WE know what’s going on and where to get our news from, but we’re in like the one-tenth of one percent of staying informed. You’re in like the one-hundredth of one percent of staying informed. And yet you’re in like the bottom one percent of understanding how uninformed 90% of people are.
It really is stunning that you’re capable of being such an arrogant ass while either being wrong about 99% of the opinions you post on here or addressing a totally random point that nobody was making.
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lol@you, go away you trolling flea.
Tell me more about how Nancy and the establishment Dems are totally going to impeach Trump based on the Mueller report.
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Speaking of everyone hating each other, we should have an unstuck convention. I propose mid January in Las Vegas.
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Better make sure it’s not at a Caesars or MGM property. I don’t want to catch a ban there if I get in a fight when nunn tries to jump me and shove 5,000 pages of deposition testimony down my throat while shouting, “READ THE TRANSCRIPTS CUSEROUNDER, READ THE TRANSCRIPTS!!!”.
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What universe do you live in where you think I would go to anything like this?
We tend not to like the people who call us on our bullshit. I had a girlfriend who did that, it took me a while to realize she was right about a lot of it and change as a person instead of being mad at her for it. It turned into a great growing experience.
Aww shucks, nunn is too cool for us guys!
Maybe you go to your high school reunions, too, I don’t know.
I don’t mind the debates any more lol. I told myself to let Johnny and nunn have their fun earlier when Johnny was paying Trump Tower prices for internet access on a flight. I assume they’re enjoying the argument and getting something out of it. It’s just when it seems pointless and compulsive that I my finger edges to the ignore button.
I would like for nunn to post more industry stories and film analysis. We can talk about movies and whether Fight Club deserved a graphic novel sequel.
I blew off my 10 year, but I’ll probably go to the 20 or 25 year one. 
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