I do agree with this as well. The reporting of news has changed. The de-localization and the instant updates, and the better taxonomies, allow stories from "elsewhere" to fill your local news feeds.
But I also do believe the police are "getting worse". On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > Maybe these sorts of stories are just being covered more now but it seems > > to me that police have been taking an increasingly brutal line toward > > anyone that questions their actions. It's been like this for a long time, > > of course, for minorities and poor folks, but the behavior seems to be > > spreading and becoming more and more brazen as time goes on. Maybe I'm > > just projecting, though. Regardless, it's fucked up. > > > 10%(?) of any given group of people is a jerk. I really don't think "it's > getting worse". I do think that recursively fed headlines via sites like > Facebook are making many people feel like "it's getting worse all the time" > since people are increasingly silo'd into echo chambers and groupthink on > social media. > > Add in the polarization of TV and other media not to mention politics and > really the only think you are ever going to see is this unending stream of > how bad XYZ thing is because the group you are surrounding yourself with > (or who is surrounding you semi-against your will) keeps repeating it over > and over like a brainwashing chant. > > I think it's super easy to look around and think things are so much worse > today because of this. In the case of police, I think social media and > exposure is actually making the police think twice before each action - not > grow bolder in misbehavior. > > But what kinda shocking leading headlines does that make? > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370343 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
