My less tech savy younger family members have learned to completely ignore ads, wait for the skip button and effectively avoid all the false skip buttons on account of playing mobile games with ads since they were babies. Advertisers have perfected the human brain of people who rawdog the internet to be incapable of retaining any information from any ad they see and finding skip buttons wherever they may be.
From my personal observational account, i think I’ve only seen boomers and some older millennials ever interacting with ads. A gen alpha’s brain wouldn’t even remember an ad they just saw. They have perfected filtering them.
This kind of behavior is harmful to the legitimacy of journalism itself and entirely self defeating at pushing an agenda.
When journalism is mistrusted, misinformation is boosted. When people find out information is misrepresented, they will seek out other sources and be less likely to believe information even when it is legitimate.
We all lost today and the significance of this loss has not dawned on the news agencies. I really hope they don’t come crying again about how journalism is dying because people don’t care for buying newspapers anymore.
I really hope at some point we go back to the apolitical, strict facts representation and unbiased coverage of events. That’s what journalism is supposed to be. Not this tailored version of events reporting that we often get.