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You're likely being downvoted for crude misattribution and faux outrage. That travel columnist - she writes mostly about train journeys - is a freelancer that i
by inopinatus 10y ago
You're likely being downvoted for crude misattribution and faux outrage.
That travel columnist - she writes mostly about train journeys - is a freelancer that is equally syndicated in the Daily Telegraph, which is Britain's most conservative broadsheet, as she is in the left-leaning Guardian.
It took me less than sixty seconds to establish this.
HN's reader population has a pretty good BS radar, and fake outrage based on manipulated facts ranks sky-high on that scale.
- piotrjurkiewicz 10y agoYou are right, she is a travel columnist and freelancer, who works for other media as well. But what difference does it make? Does it make her tweet fake?
- inopinatus 10y agoIt makes it trivial remark from a British national of no apparent affiliation, and therefore entirely uninteresting, except for the faux outrage being displayed as a result.
- piotrjurkiewicz 10y agoIs calling for an assassination of President a 'trivial remark'? Your excuses of the whole situation are pathetic. Similar situations happened against Obama and they were reported by MSM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-demonizing-of-barack-obama/2012/02/23/gIQALnFfYR_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-demonizing-of-ba... Do you really not see the lack of symmetry in media attitude?
- inopinatus 10y agoI'm afraid the article you linked to contains substantial remarks from significant people. As a result it merely reinforces just how inconsequential the tweet is that was originally referenced. In practice there is both conservative and liberal biased media available. This is why using the term "MSM" pejoratively has become (rather like that ugly acronym "SJW", or ugly nicknames like "drumpf"), the marker of someone who has decided to take sides and now wishes to complain bitterly about the other one.
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