(2017-08-10) Sutherland How Internet Paywalls Are Making Us All Dumber

Rory Sutherland: How internet Paywalls are making us all dumber

There is almost no high-quality Journalism from the moderate right-wing press available free and ungated on line.

If you are a moderate Burkean Conservative baffled as to why the internet seems full of Left-wing idealogues interspersed with the odd tin-foil-hatted Right-winger this explains a lot. If you are left-wing, the internet is a black and white place, mostly filled with opinions mirroring your own, interspersed with occasional Tour-et-tish outbursts from the weirder elements of the right.

Robert Cialdini explained how this works: media mostly creates bias not through quality of argument but by quantity of coverage, highlighting some events and burying others.