Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

f1onagher

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I started looking into the NASCAR thing a bit closer since it has been a long time since I cared about stock cars driving an oval a hundred times. Reading between the lines NASCAR is bleeding fans and wants to try and expand its marketability. In doing so it's performing the tired old move of tossing its core base under the bus to be more attractive to outsiders.

The issue with Darrell "I'm totally not aping a southern stereotype name" Wallace is that he's the only full-time African American driver in the sport and less than two days after demanding that NASCAR ban the flag they did so. Needless to say, all those horrible, horrible people that pay him to play the sport he loves had an adverse reaction and he's making a big deal about not being able to interact with the crowds after the race the way he used to. Funny how people get irate when you waltz into their cultural space and piss in their Wheaties isn't is Darrell.

As for the noose thing, I give it 50/50 chance of being real or fake. Mr. Wallace and I assume his support staff are BLM idiots and I could see them trying to milk this while the iron is hot, but he did also just shit directly on NASCARs core fanbase and there's no shortage of idiots that would take umbrage at all that. So let's wait and see and hope the investigators are at least as honest as the Chicago police.

I'm putting $10 on its being fake though. The BLM types are really obsessed with nooses because they think lynching was a solely anti-black thing.
 

Yinko

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As for the noose thing, I give it 50/50 chance of being real or fake. Mr. Wallace and I assume his support staff are BLM idiots and I could see them trying to milk this while the iron is hot, but he did also just shit directly on NASCARs core fanbase and there's no shortage of idiots that would take umbrage at all that. So let's wait and see and hope the investigators are at least as honest as the Chicago police.

I'm putting $10 on its being fake though. The BLM types are really obsessed with nooses because they think lynching was a solely anti-black thing.
Yeah, I had the exact same reasoning. I am cautiously open to the possibility of it being real, for the reasons you mentioned, but it's probably fake. No damage was done to any of the racing equipement, no spray painting, no damage done to the dude. It looks like the sort of thing that someone would try to pull that would look bad but require no personal effort or commitment.
 

Doomsought

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I started looking into the NASCAR thing a bit closer since it has been a long time since I cared about stock cars driving an oval a hundred times.
The downhill trend started years ago, my grandmother is a big racing fan and she complained about how one of the major racetracks in Indiana got inherited by daughters of the previous owner that weren't part of the culture and started to push some bullshit or tried to get rid of a brother who was part of the culture. I can't remember exactly what.

But a consistent trend is major institutions going bad when taken over by new owners.
 

CarlManvers2019

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The downhill trend started years ago, my grandmother is a big racing fan and she complained about how one of the major racetracks in Indiana got inherited by daughters of the previous owner that weren't part of the culture and started to push some bullshit or tried to get rid of a brother who was part of the culture. I can't remember exactly what.

But a consistent trend is major institutions going bad when taken over by new owners.

I thought the problem was that even many decades ago, they were already having to deal with a bunch of Far Left types amongst their membership
 

Tzeentchean Perspective

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This lie was being spread around, caught it on another site, possibly The Hill, and wasn't shocked that Twitter apparently caught a break.
Now I'm seeing the reality of the case, out and once again people's true vulnerability to fake headlines is revealed.



 

MelancholicMechanicus

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Get ready for some amazing double think fellas

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They think this is a wining argument.
 

Knowledgeispower

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Get ready for some amazing double think fellas

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They think this is a wining argument.
Ah yes we only are responsible for over 90% of the most violent cities on both a per capita and absolute basis not all of them, this means that clearly we're the political party that you should vote for.
 
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Husky_Khan

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From a Tulsa Fox Affiliate...


WHITE LAWYERS PULL WEAPONS ON PEACEFUL PROTESTORS!!!

Fox 23 said:
A white St. Louis couple pulled weapons, including what appeared to be an assault rifle, on Black Lives Matter protesters who marched through their upscale neighborhood Sunday on their way to the mayor’s house.

The entire objective news article is actually written quite terribly like a blog post.
 

Urabrask Revealed

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WHITE LAWYERS PULL WEAPONS ON PEACEFUL PROTESTORS!!!
They are lucky it wasn't me in their place. I would've warned them once, give them twenty seconds to start moving back to the gate, and if they did not back off by then, opened fire. If a bunch of hostile people intrudes on my marked as closed gate property, you bet your ass I will defend it.
 

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