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Liberals read. Conservatives watch tv. All of Scott's excuses make perfect sense if the only information one gets from the political sphere is text. I suppose he had good reasons to doubt the credibility of all those people who said Biden was senile, I remember many of them claiming that Hillary was about to keel over in 2016 too.
What he apparently didn't do was watch the clips.
To be totally honest from time to time I go "Hmm maybe a tiny bit of TV could actually be useful", because the medium does have some actual advantages, but I would say my preference goes deeper than just politics -- I don't even like YouTube videos and will do almost anything possible to get tutorials/answers/information from written form instead. I do kind of wonder how alone I am in this, because a lot of people I speak to, and especially my age or slightly younger, vastly prefer YouTube. But I was raised in a house where the TV was rarely on (live programming), and certainly not tuned to the news. Also, not on TikTok either, so there's that. I imagine Scott is much the same.
YouTube is uniquely bad and transmitting information via video through what they incentivize and how they do it. A sub 2 minute video that gets directly to the point of its subject matter, for instance a how-to video on completing some task (car repair, video game level, homework question), while obviously superior at its intended function is less likely to appear in search results and offers next to nothing to its creator. What you tube actually incentivizes are 10 minute+ videos, with ads, that keep people watching. Effectively communicating information is, at best, a happy accident. This also occurs in text based communication as well, were a single sentence answer to a question (a personal example from recently: an excel formula I'd forgotten), will be stretched to 7+ paragraphs of useless words with at least 3 ads, one of which is a video that auto-plays, with the actual answer to the question (a single sentence often less that 10 words long) being buried in the 2nd to last paragraph. At least with text you can ctrl+F.
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