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SvennoJ on 24 November 2013
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Darth Tigris said:
blublibla said:

I'm not talking about medias being pro- or anti- such console or the other. But I don't think it's as simple as "follow the money" and it's not the only point of a media.

I should have gone in details because obviously people are very ignorant in terms or propaganda/PR: Media outlet aims are paid by people with money, governments, corporations, lobbies, to use their influence in order to change people's mind for their interest.

In the case of any corporations, electronic or whatnot, their spill money in lobbies, associations and other indirect pawns which then inject money in media outlet to change readers into stupid compulsive buyers.

If it's a government who wants to say, attack Iran, they inject money in intermediates like lobbies, think thanks etc...which in their turn inject money in medias to influence readers into stupid supporter of a war.

Of course it gets complicated when several people have the same interest which makes the propaganda stronger, like oil companies, car companies and government together, or Microsoft, the Kinnect and the NSA...

Sorry.  You completely lost me there.  Have fun with this ...

Why so quick to dismiss, companies will do whatever they want until they get caught.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5129890/lg-admits-smart-tvs-ignored-privacy-setting-promises-update

The opt-out option isn't particularly prominent, but the problem with it was discovered when UK developer "DoctorBeet" found that even though he'd tried to turn off collection, his TV still passed unencrypted data about which channels he was watching back to a server. Beyond that, it also appeared to periodically check his attached USB drive and collect the names of files on it, something that's not described as part of LG's targeted ad system. LG confirmed this report as well: "While the file names are not stored, the transmission of such file names was part of a new feature being readied to search for data from the internet (metadata) related to the program being watched in order to deliver a better viewing experience,"

It's in MS' interest to collect user data as well, targeted adds are worth a lot of money.
Same for Sony, they openly warn you when making a sub account that your child's data may be shared with 3rd parties.

The propaganda here is that it's all harmless anonymous data collection, and that MS will never hand it over to the NSA. Which they ofcourse already did with Outlook, Skydrive and Skype. Plus how do targeted ads work when it's all anonymous... Storing an IP adress instead of a name is not anonymous, it's still profiling you.

My wife just said today that she started to get creeped out that stuff she searches on Ebay appears on her Facebook moments later. Maybe some people find it cool that when you start up your laptop you get personalized adds based on what you watched the night before, I find it rather creepy.


Bias in videogame journalism is also due to the secrecy around game releases. You want an early scoop, then get behind the company line.  Metacritic scores for hyped games usually go down when later reviews come out.
On the other hand generating clicks is just as important for website journalism. Exaggeration works best for that, factual objective reviews are worthless.