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> The bigger difference is there was just a lot less news. Maybe the world would be better off with less news.

I think you’re close. There was a lot less repetition of news. Now the need to fill endless hours with content means stories are repeated ad nauseam. Keep in mind that repetition is known and used as a torture technique. “Repetition is an important neural linguistic programming interrogation tactic to influence the target mind” [0].

[0] https://neuralguantanamo.com/no-touch-torture-techniques/




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