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What makes a media whore is the desire for attention at any cost. It's toxic behavior, thus the pejorative term for it. I wasn't suggesting the article use it.
by Canada 10y ago
What makes a media whore is the desire for attention at any cost. It's toxic behavior, thus the pejorative term for it. I wasn't suggesting the article use it. The label doesn't fit any of the other undesirable behaviors they enumerated.
- tptacek 10y agoYou want something past "attention whore", which connotes only aspiration and doesn't capture accumulated social capital. It's the accumulated social capital that makes these people so harmful.