What is Reddit's opinion of It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News?

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The media has been running “the Super Bowl is projected to cost employers eleventy zillion dollars in lost productivity” every single damn year since the Nineties. Drew Curtis pointed this out in his book, published in freaking 2007.

I read this book when it first came out.

https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-News-Fark-Media/dp/1592403662

FARK for those who don't know is kind of a proto Reddit if reddit only had like 5 subs and only one moderator.

The conclusion of the book is that journalists are lazy. So they look for easy stories. Think about every memorial day, 4th of july, etc there is always a story about increased traffic. That isn't news. News would be nobody driving on those days.

So anyway this fits the bill. The Gundy story broke and got clicks. So now it's going to be copied.

People don't care to be educated. That's why they just accept what the media says at face value. The whole "fake news" thing has become big in the Trump era but the media has always done this.

Back in the early days of the internet they had my grandma convinced that a computer virus could be transmitted to people.

I also remember when some dude posted on totse, the temple of the screaming electron about making a drug that involved collecting gas from fermenting feces in a balloon and inhaling it. There was a big scare about teenagers huffing the shit gas known as jenkem even though it was complete bullshit.

This is a great book although it is a bit dated: https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-News-Fark-Media/dp/1592403662/

> I'd usually do it in my "Top X" lists by rating a horrible movie one step higher than a beloved cult movie.

Oh, this is a classic. Check out this book, written by Drew Curtis of Fark.com, back in 2008. Discusses this tactic as used by magazine companies and some newspapers.

In his book It's Not News It's Fark, Drew Curtis said that some user on his website isolated a freeze frame, and that it spread from there to the news, and I believe it.

In his book It's Not News It's Fark, Drew Curtis said that some user on his website isolated a freeze frame, and that it spread from there to the news, and I believe it.

You'd probably enjoy It's not news it's Fark.com it's sort of a chronicle of common types of non-news. It's a few years old though, but remarkably, nothing has changed.