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Stop Reading Any News on Trump, and He Could Disappear Altogether
Your clicking links may empower Trump.
Who dictates the news? Of course it is the events that dictate the news.
But does your behavior influence it?
- Yes, it does in the United States.
The more a news link is clicked, the more a news outlet will report on the subject matters that people clicked during the day.
No surprise that Trump got a lot of attention in the past. You clicked him into top position for the 2016 Presidential elections. He was the most news worthy person and in some ways he still is. Why? Because he upsets the apple cart.
- We are curious about what an actual situation is and we are curious about what or who upsets that situation. We click because we are curious.
Your clicking news articles about Trump on your phone, pad, or computer ensures he gets the same attention from our news outlets for the 2024 Presidential elections as he did for the 2016 elections. It also means you can kill that specific news stream by no longer clicking the monkey link on your device. Indirectly, you control what is served to you online and what is served to you on the news outlets.
Let there be no confusion: News outlets do not care about you. That should not be a surprise, really! News outlets do not care about the truth. They care about selling their very own importance and that is accomplished through both the actual news of the day and everything that you clicked on, telling them what is important to you.
You and all of us live in electronic echo chambers, which means you can control these echo chambers (a tiny bit) by shutting down your curiosity about what you disapprove of.
