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Originally Posted by Adder
But I'm not silly enough to be surprised that a publisher of online content cites itself above and before citing others.
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Perhaps that's the best we can expect from these sources. This is just what happens when media is democratized.
My favorite development is the story about Twitter and Facebook reactions to events or statements by politicians, celebrities, etc.
Headline: "Twitter exploded today when Brad Pitt said he didn't care for hairy armpits on women." Then below, a bunch of links from common everyday shlubs on Twitter and FB.
So let me get this straight... Comments from some school teacher in Ackron regarding what Brad Pitt said are now news? How? Who in the fuck cares what Karen from Ackron thinks about, well, anything. Fuck Karen. And fuck Bob from Tulsa who replied to Karen, and Vincent from Miami who replied to him. Fuck all of these people. Fuck this entire peanut gallery of poorly educated congenital misfits and whatever deluded hubris caused them to think their unlearned opinions have any claim to value in the public sphere.
Mary from Cincinnati works for a dermatologist and thinks women growing out armpit hair will lead to an epidemic of ingrown hairs requiring costly cyst removal? Fucking great. I couldn't have gotten through my day with out that. Thanks, Mary. Now go home and stick your head in the oven.
Goddammit. Can someone put the social media genie back in the fucking bottle? People saying crazy things should only do so anonymously, in places like this, where only other weirdos will read them.
But the real villain here, the unforgivable evil that should be sent to one of Dante's central rings, is Ted Turner.
If we'd never had that fucking idiotic 24/7 news cycle, we'd never have had this insane business model where, rather than allow for some dead air, assholes in media companies everywhere must be pumping out "stories" all day long. And where they've so run out of useful shit to write that now they're writing about and even doing full news bits on cable about the opinions - the moronic, uninformed opinions - of shitheads spewing on Twitter or Facebook.
"Hey, look, Tom in Seattle has a really strong view about international finance. He just tweeted to Christine Lagarde about it! This is news! Maybe if we try real hard - if we perhaps take acid, or hit ourselves over the head with bricks for a bit - we can imagine Christine reading Tom's tweet over a latte in some French cafe." Or, more realistically, we can envision the reality of Tom tweeting his stupid shite between making and serving lattes at the local hipster coffee shop.
Fuck off, Tom. But really, fuck off everyone paying attention to Tom. Which I guess includes me. But I only paid attention out of hatred. So only half fuck me.
