At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don’t care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don’t care about someone’s dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it’s a continuous feed of trash someone else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.
Feeds also often let you mark content as “not interested” to better personalize for what you consider relevant and newsworthy. So, it’s not necessarily a one-way street there either.
At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don’t care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don’t care about someone’s dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it’s a continuous feed of trash someone else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.
Feeds also often let you mark content as “not interested” to better personalize for what you consider relevant and newsworthy. So, it’s not necessarily a one-way street there either.