It seems to me that the epistemics of your article are those of standard conspiracy theory. You see a pattern and instead of looking deeper for evidence whether the pattern is true you write a post proposing it’s true by pointing to the pattern.
I run a company that has been featured in the media, so I get a look behind the curtain. Paul Graham writes about this experience in The Submarine.
For deeper, more traditionally academic-style evidence, you can find the propaganda bias painstakingly documented in Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. A more recent take is available in Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi.
This post merely illustrates a phenomenon I have been investigating for a long time.
The claim that likely all of the top stories on Ars Technica are there because of a PR agent is a very different claim then the one that Paul Graham makes in The Submarine that plenty of stories are written because of PR agents.
It’s worth noting that the Graham article used to be faulty in his first version to the point that he had to correct it.
I run a company that has been featured in the media, so I get a look behind the curtain.
Are you really saying that no journalists contacted you that you didn’t contact?
It seems to me that the epistemics of your article are those of standard conspiracy theory. You see a pattern and instead of looking deeper for evidence whether the pattern is true you write a post proposing it’s true by pointing to the pattern.
I run a company that has been featured in the media, so I get a look behind the curtain. Paul Graham writes about this experience in The Submarine.
For deeper, more traditionally academic-style evidence, you can find the propaganda bias painstakingly documented in Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. A more recent take is available in Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi.
This post merely illustrates a phenomenon I have been investigating for a long time.
The claim that likely all of the top stories on Ars Technica are there because of a PR agent is a very different claim then the one that Paul Graham makes in The Submarine that plenty of stories are written because of PR agents.
It’s worth noting that the Graham article used to be faulty in his first version to the point that he had to correct it.
Are you really saying that no journalists contacted you that you didn’t contact?
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