> if media starts portraying everything via fictitious dramatization
let me do one nit picky correction
"does so in a a way even more efficient at manipulating our brains"
because a lot of media, especially social media, already do so. Just currently by using unrelated stock photos, photos from different "incididents" etc.
e.g. even on supposedly reputable news channels it's not rare to find the background images of completely unrelated incidents when they don't have any fitting "correct" images, and then maybe some small *note in some corner. Or not because didn't even notice.
let me do one nit picky correction
"does so in a a way even more efficient at manipulating our brains"
because a lot of media, especially social media, already do so. Just currently by using unrelated stock photos, photos from different "incididents" etc.
e.g. even on supposedly reputable news channels it's not rare to find the background images of completely unrelated incidents when they don't have any fitting "correct" images, and then maybe some small *note in some corner. Or not because didn't even notice.