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Outrage culture at its finest. NPR cites a few tweets. Let's analyze: [1] has 13 likes; [2] has 8. No one cares about emojis this much. Real activists (not Twit

by dvt 8y ago

Outrage culture at its finest. NPR cites a few tweets. Let's analyze: [1] has 13 likes; [2] has 8. No one cares about emojis this much. Real activists (not Twitter keyboard warriors) don't care about emojis, they care about, you know, actual social progress. It took this group like 2 years to get 54,600 signatures when joke petitions like [3] are in the same ballpark. I mean, give me a break. But articles like this are built from the ground up to (a) get clicks and (b) get people fired up in the comments section to, you guessed it, get more clicks. Journalism, if you can even call it that anymore, is in a sorry state right now. And instead of proving Trump's inane "fake news" diatribes wrong, we have highly-respected news outlets essentially printing garbage like this. [1] https://twitter.com/PlanUK/status/869632011316727808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E869632011316727808&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fgoatsandsoda%2F2019%2F02%2F08%2F692481425%2Fwhy-period-activists-think-the-drop-of-blood-emoji-is-a-huge-win https://twitter.com/PlanUK/status/869632011316727808?ref_src... [2] https://twitter.com/Cearaa/status/1093430548171841541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1093430548171841541&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fgoatsandsoda%2F2019%2F02%2F08%2F692481425%2Fwhy-period-activists-think-the-drop-of-blood-emoji-is-a-huge-win https://twitter.com/Cearaa/status/1093430548171841541?ref_sr... [3] https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016 https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/petition/secu...

mulmen 8y ago
The existence of this story and any flaws that may or may not exist in it do not represent the state of journalism as a whole.
- dvt 8y ago
  Actually they do; this kind of click-bait yellow journalism has become the norm, not the exception. From Breitbart to Huffington Post, they all do it.
  - mulmen 8y ago
    Neither Beritbart nor Huffington post are particularly reputable journalistic outlets, they're both at the extremes of the political spectrum. My point is that you can't condemn the entire discipline of journalism based on a single story.
- funkythings 8y ago
  There are thousands of examples with similar style across the "mainstream" media. At what point can we judge the state of journalism as a whole?
Dylan16807 8y ago
I'm not sure what people object to in your post, but it's important to call news outlets out when they use some random tweet that 50 people have seen as a "representative" view. If you use any tweets you can pretend almost anything is a common opinion.

by dvt 8y ago

mulmen 8y ago

The existence of this story and any flaws that may or may not exist in it do not represent the state of journalism as a whole.

dvt 8y ago
Actually they do; this kind of click-bait yellow journalism has become the norm, not the exception. From Breitbart to Huffington Post, they all do it.
- mulmen 8y ago
  Neither Beritbart nor Huffington post are particularly reputable journalistic outlets, they're both at the extremes of the political spectrum. My point is that you can't condemn the entire discipline of journalism based on a single story.
funkythings 8y ago
There are thousands of examples with similar style across the "mainstream" media. At what point can we judge the state of journalism as a whole?

Dylan16807 8y ago

I'm not sure what people object to in your post, but it's important to call news outlets out when they use some random tweet that 50 people have seen as a "representative" view. If you use any tweets you can pretend almost anything is a common opinion.