Certain technological mediums seem to encourage lying, and—according to this article— “may make it easier for talking heads to lie.”
Researchers have found that—compared to in-person interactions—people lie more by phone, but less by email and IM. Factors that encourage lying include real-time interactions and being in separate rooms, while lying rates decline when the interactions can be easily recorded. Thus, the phone is the chosen agent of deception—and today’s pundit televisions shows may have much in common with a phone call.
“This isn’t an attack on Fox or NBC, but the system as a whole. In order to make a certain kind of television cheaper, the news shows may have built a system that encourages (or at least doesn’t discourage) deception.”
