🌱 Jon Stewart on media

I don’t think it has ever had a good handle on a politcal moment. It’s not designed for that. It’s designed for engagement. It’s like YouTube and Facebook: an information-laundering perpetual-radicalization machine. It’s like porn. I don’t mean that to be flip. When you were pubescent, the mere hint of a bra strap could send you into ecstasy. I’m 57 now. If it’s not two nuns and a mule, I can’t even watch it. Do you understand my point? The algoritm is not designed for thoughful engagement and clarity. It’s designed to make you look at it longer.