I would like to let you all in on to a little news and information secret, that appears to be unconscious to most people. I noticed this affect, by watching all the various news stations, from both sides, during the early days of the collusion narrative. It has to do with how the brain works, and how perception inductions can be tweaked, to impact how we will perceive information.
If you are motivated by the emotions of fight/flight, the brain speeds up. The brain waves will increase frequency. This is natural and connected to instinct. With fight/flight, one needs to be aware of the immediate present and real time events, to assure survival. At the other extreme, time will fly the you are having fun. In this case, the brain slows down; brain waves slow down. The mind is less aware of the real time details, since these all seem to blur together, with hours passing. The brain has a range of perception platforms.
This affect is analogous to photography. In photography, if the shutter speed is very fast, even the fastest action in the photo will be in focus; can see fast minutia and details with clarity. If the shutter speed is too slow, you will get motion blur, with all but the slowest motion, appearing blurry. With the slow shutter speed, the details become fuzzy, causing one to look at the larger stationary picture, for the context. With fight/flight your brain is thinking second to second; very fast shut speed. This makes you aware of tiny details since these are in focus. But with fun, you are not aware of the second by second events; blurry, but only with the longer view; slow shutter speed.
The net effect is, based on the speed of the brain, the same data will be interpreted differently. A short term time perception fast brain, looks in terms of an immediate conclusion, based on the clarity of a small immediate data set. Whereas the longer time perception, sees this data as being blurry, and tries to fit that fuzzy dice data, into a longer term criteria.
For example, during the Trump collusion soap opera, over the past year, those induced by fear and hate, on both sides, would react to any tiny bit of gossip, as the new key smoking gun data, since it fit into a short term perception narrative, even if false in the bigger picture. The media was responsible for speeding up the brain, so day to day,garbage, would attract audience. Those who could slow the brain, and see longer term, were less vulnerable, since this would be fuzzy and out of focus. It was not accepted right away, until it came into focus in the longer term.
Next time you watch the news, as an exercise, try to become self aware of the feelings you feel. Focus on the induced feelings. If these feelings involve stress, anxiety, anger, fear, etc., then know they are trying to speed up your brain, so your vision is narrowed to the immediate. The goal of speeding up the brain is so any garbage gossip will be treated as clarity, but ion the context of a very narrow world view; fast shutter speed.
This is true of both sides of the news and is used to maintain audience share. If they tried to slow the brain, like in the days of old, the slow shutter speed makes to much of the new news look fuzzy or unsubstantiated; motion blur. This type of data does not register as well to most people, whose brains are working faster due to their daily stresses.
Trump has been a bonanza for leftist news outlets. Failing newspapers, like the NYT, received new life. The entire turnaround involved using the controversy, that is Trump, to speed up the leftist brain, It also catered to the already speeded up leftist brain, due to years of leftist fear monger propaganda and the negative economy. Once they found that brain speed recipe, they found their pot of money. Personally, this is not good for people, since the continuous fast brain speed, causes brain drain that slowly lowers the brain's set point; one de-evolves.
