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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
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Originally Posted by Anteater
Same people who have been whining for years about "not all Muslims" or "not all Christians" are now branding an "eco-fascist" and Chinese government sympathizer into a white supremacist that "speaks for all white people in New Zealand". We have multiple incidents every year where Christian churches get bombed in brown countries by Muslim extremists that don't even hit the bar for C-lst coverage from CNN and The Atlantic but they'll do thinkpieces on the "global dominance of white nationalist terrorism". There's certainly a big death toll out there...but it definitely isn't the "white" side with the higher numbers. They also lump in all those shooters like the Parkland kid into it even though he was a self-hating Jew. Like "wuttttttt", lol.
Makes me glad I didn't pursue a career in journalism right out of college. This **** would make me question what the point of the job is other than driving clicks. Yeesh.
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Neat, turn the situation into another round of whataboutist culture war nonsense. Bet the gunman just hates that.
I think that citizen journalism is playing a big role in the disintegration of mainstream journalism in that it's taken away their gatekeeper role. They're starting to rely on social media too much as a source and as an outlet, which has led to lot of hasty reporting and biased clickbait. It's a give and take.