Technology/The Internet/Communications

[Linus]

My uncle sent me this video of security specialist Bruce Scheier talking about we are the product, not the customer. It's very interesting and does highlight, particularly in the US, this phenomenon.

My uncle ended up posting the following comment on Scheier's blog:

Chomsky, in a similar vein, has been reminding us for years that the readership is a newspaper's (tv newscast's/whatever's) product.

If you keep this in mind while reading/watching/retching-at the news; the meta- level of modern corporate news media's incoherent offerings starts to become coherent: The news media job is not to inform, but to deliver this product, the audience, to the advertisers