“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

"Cub Reporter" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/3.htm#Cub%20Reporter <br class="br">An Autobiographical Novel (1991)

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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

Paul Virilio (1932–2018) French philosopher

Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89

“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher

Predictible Fakers (January 2009) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/predictible-fakers.html <br class="br">Context: My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.