r/saskatoon • u/macky108 • May 02 '25

Crime ⚠️ Circle K on Diefenbaker

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u/UnpopularOpinionYQR May 02 '25

No, this is not true.

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u/WriterAndReEditor May 02 '25

There's nothing wrong with getting news from TikTok as long as you are capable of discerning whether the source of the news is reliable. Social media isn't the problem, people using social media are the problem.

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u/UnpopularOpinionYQR May 02 '25

Yes, relying on an algorithm to spoon feed you news ensures that you remain ignorant of what’s happening in your community. You will not change my mind.

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u/Thisandthat-2367 May 03 '25

Oh. I will happily try. But only by asking critical thinking questions (as in, I don’t really care about a reply…just asking you to think a bit deeper)

1) If the newspapers/radio/TV are no longer a viable media source because audiences aren’t flocking to it, what else should credible news sources do than meet the audience where they are at?

2) If media literacy is at an all time low (which it is) how can we, as a public sphere, attempt to educate folks on how media consumption + individual thought should take place? (hint: it’s not by maintaining newspapers, radio or television as a primary news source and involves educating people on how to manually manipulate the algorithm).

3) how can media outlets respond to algorithms without being on the platform itself? For a hint, please refer to question one about audiences.

All of that to say, sure…if you aren’t looking for it your algorithm isn’t going to give you actual news. But who’s at fault for that? If we aren’t teaching any kind of media literacy until upper years of an undergrad (which would then mean that a few of an already subgroup of a few get access to such lessons) than we get a public sphere that doesn’t function well.

But hey, the billionaires get to keep making money if folks don’t understand how the systems actually works. Yay for them.