There was so much wrong with that story. Even overlooking to porn and social media angle that the NYT was going for how the hell would a remote tribe have enough external cultural knowledge to chose the fashions that they wore, speak a language which is on the Internet and have any context as to how to explore the Internet for the things that they supposedly found.
If anything it was a giant mirror with a neon flashing frame as to what their sponsors are pushing with every heartbeat they have.
[...] speak a language which is on the Internet and have any context as to how to explore the Internet for the things that they supposedly found[?]
A reader could imagine they were scarcely educated on a language, computer navigation and typing, then haphazardly given email, twitter and Amazon accounts. From there, the reader might rely on a presumption that anything you want on the internet is pretty easily accessed (or perhaps accidentally found).
There was so much wrong with that story. Even overlooking to porn and social media angle that the NYT was going for how the hell would a remote tribe have enough external cultural knowledge to chose the fashions that they wore, speak a language which is on the Internet and have any context as to how to explore the Internet for the things that they supposedly found.
If anything it was a giant mirror with a neon flashing frame as to what their sponsors are pushing with every heartbeat they have.
A reader could imagine they were scarcely educated on a language, computer navigation and typing, then haphazardly given email, twitter and Amazon accounts. From there, the reader might rely on a presumption that anything you want on the internet is pretty easily accessed (or perhaps accidentally found).