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That petition made national news at 2000 signatures. 2000 is virtually meaningless, in a country of 300 million people, and yet it was getting significant news

That petition made national news at 2000 signatures. 2000 is virtually meaningless, in a country of 300 million people, and yet it was getting significant news coverage.

paulgb 6y ago
> and yet it was getting significant news coverage What's funny to me is, at least in my feed, these stories are shared most by people who use them to decry cancel culture. This in turn drives clicks to these stories and creates the demand for them, amplifying the impact of those 2,000 people in exactly the opposite way they intend to.
- rbecker 6y ago
  Lest this comment give anyone the impression that petition only received attention because people opposing cancel culture shared it, let me dispel that error - it was covered by the most prominent newspaper in the country: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-petition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-peti...
  - Thorrez 6y ago
    Was that article written after Trader Joe's responded to the petition? Or did Trader Joe's respond to the petition as part of that article being written? Anyway, it's possible NYT wrote that article knowing it would be a hot-button article and would be shared widely by anti cancel culture people.
    - blub 6y ago
      NYT doesn't care who shares its articles as long as it gets the eyeballs. This is what got us here in the first place: click-optimized journalism.
- briandear 6y ago
  And the ridiculous Goya boycott resulted in Goya selling even more.
bezmenov 6y ago
This is the real problem. Media is amplifying the voice of what constitutes a handful of radicals to the national stage. Those not privy are being brainwashed into kowtowing to the whims of the intolerant Twitter mob.
- afarrell 6y ago
  The media writes that because the AI which decides what links to show people knows that drives clicks.
  - tlear 6y ago
    If only. More that new generation of the newspaper people really do believe the radical BS. You can see the newsroom revolts at all major newspapers. Even WSJ had one against their opinion section, they told the snowflakes to stick it, but they were the only ones. This so why I still have WSJ sub and not NYT anymore.
dylan604 6y ago
Has there been a look into which media companies were pushing these stories? I'm not pushing a conspiracy or anything, but just asking the logical question. This is how I judge any news in today's environment. If it was evenly covered, then that would be different than if just one like Sinclair or WaPo only kind of thing

That petition made national news at 2000 signatures. 2000 is virtually meaningless, in a country of 300 million people, and yet it was getting significant news coverage.

paulgb 6y ago

> and yet it was getting significant news coverage What's funny to me is, at least in my feed, these stories are shared most by people who use them to decry cancel culture. This in turn drives clicks to these stories and creates the demand for them, amplifying the impact of those 2,000 people in exactly the opposite way they intend to.

rbecker 6y ago
Lest this comment give anyone the impression that petition only received attention because people opposing cancel culture shared it, let me dispel that error - it was covered by the most prominent newspaper in the country: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-petition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-peti...
- Thorrez 6y ago
  Was that article written after Trader Joe's responded to the petition? Or did Trader Joe's respond to the petition as part of that article being written? Anyway, it's possible NYT wrote that article knowing it would be a hot-button article and would be shared widely by anti cancel culture people.
  - blub 6y ago
    NYT doesn't care who shares its articles as long as it gets the eyeballs. This is what got us here in the first place: click-optimized journalism.
briandear 6y ago
And the ridiculous Goya boycott resulted in Goya selling even more.

bezmenov 6y ago

This is the real problem. Media is amplifying the voice of what constitutes a handful of radicals to the national stage. Those not privy are being brainwashed into kowtowing to the whims of the intolerant Twitter mob.

afarrell 6y ago
The media writes that because the AI which decides what links to show people knows that drives clicks.
- tlear 6y ago
  If only. More that new generation of the newspaper people really do believe the radical BS. You can see the newsroom revolts at all major newspapers. Even WSJ had one against their opinion section, they told the snowflakes to stick it, but they were the only ones. This so why I still have WSJ sub and not NYT anymore.

dylan604 6y ago

Has there been a look into which media companies were pushing these stories? I'm not pushing a conspiracy or anything, but just asking the logical question. This is how I judge any news in today's environment. If it was evenly covered, then that would be different than if just one like Sinclair or WaPo only kind of thing