Posted on 01/20/2019 8:51:34 AM PST by DeweyCA
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The Associated Press reported that Gillette’s new toxic-masculinity ad caused an “online uproar.” “Gillette Ad With a #MeToo Edge Attracts Support and Outrage,” claimed The New York Times. “Gillette faces backlash and boycott over ‘#MeToo advert,” ran a typical headline in the BBC this week.
Outrage? Uproar? Backlash? I’d say it’s more like a hacklash. It’s journalists dealing out pretend outrage.
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After an anonymous Twitter user posing as a hater posted video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doing a cute “Breakfast Club” dance on a rooftop while she was apparently still in college, Republicans were reported to be going bonkers.
Teen Vogue reported there was “conservative outrage” and the Times reported in a headline that the video “was meant as a smear” even though the underlying story gave zero evidence for this, since we don’t actually know who posted it, much less what his or her motive was. The story did not supply the name of even one American who didn’t like the video.
Ocasio-Cortez jumped on the media’s insistence that the Right had its panties in a wad with a new, brief dance video under the line, “I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous.” No one said that. She also told a reporter, “It is unsurprising to me that Republicans would think having fun should be disqualifying or illegal,” and no one said that either.
AOC’s Contemptkin Village is exactly what editors are looking for these days. If you can’t get a rise out of anyone important, just go on the Internet and find someone, somewhere, who expresses even the mildest disagreement. Then put “Fury,” “Anger” or “Uproar” in your headline.
“A dance video appeared on the Internet, and the world shrugged” or “Someone took exception to what someone else said” just doesn’t draw the hate-clicks.
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The New York Post - covering all the news the New York Times refuses to print.
The media profits by exaggerating public sentiment, especially outrage. It is succeeding in conditioning conservatives and thinking people in general to ignore most of it. You can generally rely on reports events that can’t be politicized, but even those are getting scarce.
Outrage of the day, a Kid wearing a MAGA Hat stands looking (smirking) at some crazy old Indian guy beating a drum and the Kid is (a) a Brownshirt, (b) Nazi Youth Member, (3) might as well be wearing a KKK Hood, (d) deserves to be arrested for a Hate Crime so he will be gang Raped in Prison and (e) should have been beat up on the spot.
Their hatred is palpable.
Yeah remember Kushogisushi? No one still gives a damn!
Exactly so. It's the same approach used on ballot issues.
More bombshells in the last two years than at Stalingrad!
Convinces who? The media convinces me of nuthin’. Well, I take that back. They have convinced me to NEVER trust them.
Good article. There’s always somebody somewhere who’s irritated by something, so it’s not so hard to make the case that there’s mass anger or rage or fury out there. And as the story grows, you get people convinced that they really are furious or outraged by it because it becomes an “us versus them” thing.
They have whipped themselves up into such a state of empowerment and exuberance to exercise claimed same that they have become unbearable, full of deceit, willing to ignore their self-proclaimed leaders own faults and connivances..
They is no goodness in them, only an agenda to follow like rats in lock step, they follow a piper to their own eventual doom. Tis both a sight to behold and to turn away from, so hideous are the results, one can only imagine the sickness that drives them, the hatred .. for all of us.
To be fair, there are over 1.1M dislikes of the original video (about 2:1 dislike:like) and ~330K comments - overwhelming majority of which are negative.
There's been probably a good half dozen threads on FR (with multiple FReepers claiming to have emailed Gillette), there's multiple "response" videos on YT, and memes galore bashing Gillette, not to mention the negative comments on Twitter.
I'd say that people actually care about that....in that they care they're tired of of SJW preaching from companies. I'd say folks, especially white males, are tired of getting talked down too and being made out as bigoted, women hating, rapists from companies trying to sell those same white males male hygiene products.
As for the other examples the Post listed.....yeah I'd say there's probably faux interest and outrage.
The movie A FACE IN THE CROWD starring a young Andy Griffith flouted the absolute power of the media ability to create favorable opinion in the populace suited to the media agenda.
Pour gas on everything, light a match and say, “Let’s be friends.”
Do you mean, flaunted, rather than flouted?
I would add: Being There, with Peter Sellers.
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