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> If the audience is more outraged/enthused at a group being moral crusaders then they'll push that angle. Well, yes. News companies are mostly reflections of
by rewq4321 6y ago
> If the audience is more outraged/enthused at a group being moral crusaders then they'll push that angle.
Well, yes. News companies are mostly reflections of their audiences, and if they weren't, they wouldn't exist. This is mostly a problem with the people, unless you want to try "top-down" media companies like China et al.
That said, drawing an equivalence between the recent BLM protests and "Gamergate" is... a bit much. Gamergate is/was a toxic hell-hole of a movement in my opinion. Just a thin veil over a mass harassment campaign. But here's a series of video essays which gives the whole thing some nuance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ
- xenihn 6y agoI don't think you understood that user's post. It's not an equivalency between BLM and Gamergate, it's about the behavior of businesses that seek to make money, and how those businesses' actions in both cases have been similar.
- Causality1 6y agoExactly. You can do the legwork and come up with numbers that say "86 percent of this movement's members appear to have pure intentions" and feel good about it but ultimately it doesn't make a difference. Informal groups cannot be judged as a whole because they don't control their members. Media will always portray them in the most profitable way and it's our responsibility to make a value judgment on their central message and to hold bad actors individually responsible for their actions without bias one way or the other.