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> Yellow journalism was when we had not yet adapted to print.

people still believe whatever shit is in the daily mail even today. there are just far less yellow journals now... its in the collective memory that papers print shit for profit. maybe. i cant fully explain why it stopped

> The satanism scare was when we had not yet adapted to international news.

it was the late 80s wasnt it?

> a better reference for those eras would be the Hillsborough disaster where coverage by the Sun got it boycott

national newspaper. could still happen now.

> The difference I point to the effort required to pull it off, and adaption to it, not of existence.

yes. the printing press had similar effects. IE lies could now travel much faster than before, much easier. im sure people made similar grumblings about gutenburg as you have done about AI. are you slagging the printing press the same way though?

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