Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
The job of the journalists was always to present the facts in a way that suits the paymasters. Myth of independent journalism is just that, a myth. In the aftermath of WWII journalism gained some prestige and became a respected profession, a view that media continued to perpetuate, but with internet chipping at their facade of respectability they are openly reverting to their true self, propagandists and entertainers, doing it either for money or ideology.

Closest thing to independent journalists at this point are Youtubers like JustSomeGuy and YoungRippa56 and Tim Pool

Frankly, when it comes even to reviewing fiction, companies based on reviewing like IGN are too easy to compromise
 
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Maybe not so much as sane or insane and more horribly addicted and also psychopathic

They’re low functioning psychopaths who thrive off real dumb or approval seeking people



They’re all modern Ellsworth Toohey’s.....honestly a highly competitive and brutally pragmatic society with occasional bouts of genuine kindness and pragmatic niceness would be an improvement over the extremely shallow horrible nepotistic narcissistic revolution-obsessed prison they wish to create



Society organises faster than you can blink. By the time piracy was suppressed in Somalia, the Somalis were selling shares in pirating expeditions. That’s why conserving traditions is so important.
 

CarlManvers2019

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Society organises faster than you can blink. By the time piracy was suppressed in Somalia, the Somalis were selling shares in pirating expeditions. That’s why conserving traditions is so important.

By piracy you mean literal raids, looting and abductions alongside torture, rape and murder

Or you mean online Digital Piracy?
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Actoual attacks on ships with looting and abductions, several people were also killed, but I don't know about any rapes. It was eventualy suppressed by international naval patrols. Despite said patrols being hamstrung by idiotically politically correct ROE.

Well, if anything, I’m pretty sure these days. Most people can’t actually fight armed forces except other armed forces, so even with being hamstrung, killing pirates en masse in a direct fight would more likely occur
 

Sol Zagato

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Maybe not so much as sane or insane and more horribly addicted and also psychopathic

They’re low functioning psychopaths who thrive off real dumb or approval seeking people



They’re all modern Ellsworth Toohey’s.....honestly a highly competitive and brutally pragmatic society with occasional bouts of genuine kindness and pragmatic niceness would be an improvement over the extremely shallow horrible nepotistic narcissistic revolution-obsessed prison they wish to create

If there's one thing Rand got exactly right, it was Ellswoth Toohey. He's everywhere.

(That and big business loving government.)
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
If there's one thing Rand got exactly right, it was Ellswoth Toohey. He's everywhere.

(That and big business loving government.)

Don’t forget the big government loving business, because frankly it’s not just in a “free market” that one can attain huge amounts of power

I may not have read Atlas Shrugged, but it seems many miss how Galt’s Gulch from what I know, ONLY included the type of businessmen who make their wealth without resorting to Crony Capitalism and other horrible corrupt practices. The “aristocracy of pull” apparently needs a Big Government to really get around the competition.
 

Husky_Khan

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Washington Post said:
When he paused, I took a breath as I prepared to share my story, not knowing how he would react. “I have kids, too, two boys. I had them with a woman I was with for 13 years.”

I waited.

Avie listened attentively, nodded. I noted no surprise on his face. By the end of the evening, we had arranged to see each other again.

And so I became a lesbian who was dating a man. Although I imagined that there would be some challenges, I hoped they would be surmountable. As far as we have come in integrating gay couples and families into our culture, the straight world is full of hidden biases. With Avie, I found that, even when unintended, these biases revealed themselves in subtle ways.


Spoiler alert... shockingly the relationship didn't work out. Guess they just weren't compatible... for some reason... :unsure:
 

Terthna

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The job of the journalists was always to present the facts in a way that suits the paymasters. Myth of independent journalism is just that, a myth. In the aftermath of WWII journalism gained some prestige and became a respected profession, a view that media continued to perpetuate, but with internet chipping at their facade of respectability they are openly reverting to their true self, propagandists and entertainers, doing it either for money or ideology.
I wouldn't exactly call independent journalism a myth; there have been a few idealists here and there, but they usually are the exception, not the rule. Unfortunately, they have a different problem; as they often end up presenting facts that suit their own ideals. There's probably more of them in mainstream media now than there have ever been; mainly because they tend to be dirt cheap if you let them write what is essentially propaganda for whatever cause they believe in, and that's important in a world where the MSM is bleeding money.
 

Nitramy

The Umbrella that Smites Evil
ITT: Another nappy-haired obnoxious YAAAAAS SLAY QUEEEEEN moron working in the media and "black power" supremacist shows the entire world just how supremacist and retarded her views are.


(Edit: Yes, this is another good reason why I joined this forum. Because sometimes you have to call a spade a spade and not get penalized for it.)
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Trade schools are a thing, and won't cost you as much.

Do you still have to take additional courses?

And how much more would it cost on average compared to just learning online? Let me guess, you actually get to operate on machinery, so it’s worth more?
 

Nitramy

The Umbrella that Smites Evil
Do you still have to take additional courses?

And how much more would it cost on average compared to just learning online? Let me guess, you actually get to operate on machinery, so it’s worth more?

Pretty sure that while you're in the apprenticeship part of a trade, you still earn. Not sure about that because I'm not from a country that has trade schools (we call them vocational colleges here).
 

Realm

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nappy-haired

Isn't that term used to describe afro-textured hair? Why would you use it to describe someone who looks like this?

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HistoryMinor

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ITT: Another nappy-haired obnoxious YAAAAAS SLAY QUEEEEEN moron working in the media and "black power" supremacist shows the entire world just how supremacist and retarded her views are.


(Edit: Yes, this is another good reason why I joined this forum. Because sometimes you have to call a spade a spade and not get penalized for it.)


Hilariously "spade" also used to be a slur for a bit, even your justification of racism is quasi racist.

In other news, there's nothing like local news talking about hurricane flooding in front of carefully framed puddles and going to the shitty part of town to stand in submerged potholes.
 

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