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> 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 ca
by 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 agoLest 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 agoWas 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 agoNYT 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 agoAnd the ridiculous Goya boycott resulted in Goya selling even more.