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Blaming media has gotten increasingly popular for a variety of societal ills. It's just a favorite boogeyman to go after. Much like people who blame violent vid
by manachar 11y ago
Blaming media has gotten increasingly popular for a variety of societal ills. It's just a favorite boogeyman to go after. Much like people who blame violent video games or 4chan.
The ulterior motive is to use the situation to disparage something they already don't like.
- jjoonathan 11y agoYes, I'm sure people blame the media because they perceive it as popular and not because killers leave manifestos saying they do it because of the attention it will bring them. >‘I have noticed,’ it says, ‘that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.’ -TFA
- manachar 11y agoIt's not the media that causes the individual to crave the media attention or infamy. Does our media contribute? Absolutely. But they are the way they are because of the way we are. Or at least the way the consumers of media are.