The one that’s missing from this excellent list:

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Two scams of the modern news-industrial complex:

1. The idea that all •breaking• news must be •important•.

2. The idea that all •important• news must be •urgent•.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Breaking news alerts are a scourge. This is not limited but most definitely includes push notifications for news. Turning them off completely has probably added years to my life.

[linglass@vmst.io]

@inthehands Right? I just finished some administrative training that was quite clear that urgent and important could be very different quadrants of our planning matrices.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@LingLass
Indeed. And apparently the hardest part is just realizing that matrix exists in the first place.

[noondlyt@hellions.cloud]

@inthehands

I feel the same. They stopped being able to identify what actual breaking news is several years ago.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@noondlyt
BREAKING: I agree.

[nomdeb@mstdn.social]

@noondlyt @inthehands I have the words "breaking news" filtered out on my timeline.

[theogrin@chaosfem.tw]

@inthehands

This is a chain seen also in phishing and... well, has to be at least 50% of other scams by weight.

I wonder if the news agencies know how responsible they are for the increased rate of people falling for scams that involve FOMO or urgency.

[arazil@elvenstar.cafe]

@inthehands I had to turn off breaking news alerts in 2016... My cardiovascular system just couldn't take the stress anymore. One decade later and that decision still stands.

[buschnick@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@inthehands one of our coping strategies is to actually read a physical dead trees newspaper. Importantly, not a daily newspaper, but a weekly publication. By the time that comes around, they've had some time to digest the news and filter out most of the day to day screaming and non issues. And articles tend to be better researched and more fleshed out / of durable importance.

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@inthehands how did you get them in the first place?

The only alerts I ever seem to get are wildfires (Watch Duty is a necessity where I live) and text messages.

[carl@chaos.social]

@inthehands this

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@inthehands

"Ask yourself whether you can just completely ignore this particular news story until tomorrow."

An observation at which you seem to have failed, interestingly enough

[publicwondering@mastodon.me.uk]

@inthehands thanks for making this explicit. I'm starting to read a lot of this as "We're desperately craving your attention!".

There was a guy who used to post here who started every post with "BREAKING:" he said it was ironic, but I just found it annoying.

[tubemeister@mstdn.social]

@inthehands and then you get a push message about some sports person doing a sports thing, which is _very_ decidedly neither of those things.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@inthehands @noondlyt

Terror Management Theory as a mass media strategy:

Fake breaking news is part of a media diet intended to hijack the amygdala & both exhaust & trigger stress.

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn is what billionaires are aiming for as a consequence
https://theconversation.com/is-donald-trump-preying-on-his-supporters-death-fears-what-terror-management-theory-offers-us-242568

Just a moment...

(www.politico.com)

The Mass Psychology of Trumpism

In the minds of his most ardent supporters, the ex-president is both more and less than a person

New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com)

Terror management theory - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)