re: #18 Rightwingconspirator

Why this kind of thing takes so long to act on is a big part of what’s wrong with the media. There is so little check on the power of lies and propaganda, let alone mere laziness.

There’s a rush to be first, to get the clicks, to win the talking points war. It leaves little time for fact-checking and accuracy of speech, which takes no small amount of time & effort. Also, many people won’t bother reading it anyway (see this article, and this one). If you have your own web site, you can publish something and then check your server stats to see how long people spent on the page—most times it won’t be more than a minute or two.

Additionally, usability experts will tell you that people are much more impatient online than they are in real life. For example, you have approximately 10 seconds to grab a reader’s attention/interest, if you don’t then they’ll move on elsewhere. And that was from several years ago—it may be even less now with the advent of Twitter’s 140-character tweets, and the ubiquity of smart phones.

It’s much easier to just toss some B.S. out there and see if any of it sticks. If it does, it’s a win; if it doesn’t, no great loss as you didn’t invest much in it in the first place.