Galactic media standards in the face of "fake news" and advertising variously "full of shit"

Earth as a Shithole Planet -- from a Universal Perspective? (Part #9)

As has been frequently remarked, use of the radio waves has inadvertently resulted in every Earth broadcast being transmitted for potential reception by distant galactic civilizations. This phenomena has given focus to the question as to why humanity has not yet been contacted by extraterrestrial civilizations.

It is important to recognize the extent to which such civilizations will have been informed about the conditions and preoccupations on Planet Earth. However it is also important to question how content disseminated in this manner might be perceived by such civilizations.

Obvious issues include both news reports on wars and violence, and the enthusiastic cultivation of media violence. Of greater concern is how advertising hype would be distinguished or conflated with "fake news". Both are variously qualified as "crap" and "full of shit", raising questions as to why audiences are such enthusiastic consumers of them (Renée Loth, Fake news and telling the difference between fact and crap, The Boston Globe, 31 October 2017; Fake news: how to cut through the crap in a post-truth world, Marie Claire, 1 March 2017; Yasmin Tayag, Pope Francis: Fake News Spreaders Are Shit-Loving Coprophiliacs, Inverse, 7 December 2016).

Given the extent of the phenomenon on the internet -- presumably available to galactic civilizations in a similar manner -- the enthusiasm for pornography on Planet Earth could well be a concern, especially in the light of seemingly unresolved issues associated with "fucking".

In the light of attempts to regulate content through media and advertising standards, it is appropriate to assume that more "universal" standards would have been elaborated by distant civilizations. In this sense there is every reason to imagine that Planet Earth falls far below such standards -- rather than providing a much appreciated source of galactic entertainment, as some have chosen to speculate.

There is also the challenging possibility that the "universal" insights of a galactic civilization may have been able to encompass sexist and racist language, as well as concerns with "fake news", lying, advertising hyperbole and puffery, in far more subtle ways, as speculatively discussed separately (Zen of Facticity: Bull, Ox or Otherwise? Herding facts and their alternatives in a post-truth-era, 2017).