Oh wow. REALLY?
May. 20th, 2011 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stellarwindThe media these days is sensationalist. Something happens, they get in there with their equipment and zoom on the bloodiest goriest parts just for ratings' sake. That's nothing new, it's been that way for ages - but sometimes, I find myself truly appalled by what some people would do to get a story and the low techniques they use. Partial quotes, for example, and the reactions of OMG I'M SO SHOCKED dumb-arses to them.
Onoes, some random family in the states have an OMG adopted 10-year-old kid and the game may traumatize them for life because one character mocks the main character for being adopted! ONOES SO INSENSITIVE. We can't have childish playground taunts in a videogame rated E for everyone! (note the news story calls the game a "Popular Kids' video game". Pffffffff. XD)
The news story then proceeds to do anything in its power to show the family as victims of this insensitivity and like "OMG, WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TALK TO HER ABOUT THIS EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS SHE'S ADOPTED AND OMG SHE KEEPS STICKING TO THE STORY THAT SHE DIDN'T HEAR IT WHICH MEANS SHE ISN'T READY TO TALK ABOUT IT OMG OMG OMG."
You know, maybe if you people lived in the real goddamn world you wouldn't be so shocked about it. Real life isn't all politically correct and sterile and secure.
Also, THIS is the full quote.
GLaDOS proceeds to pwn Wheatley for that comment rather quickly. XD
Using half-quotes out of context, over-dramatizing shit - all tried and tested methods used by news people to create the next sensation, even if it includes giving a stage to idiots who don't deserve it.
Or take the latest speech by Obama about the middle east where he... really doesn't say anything new. I've seen various reports on it: some (like Fox News, which are neither) make a point on emphasizing the OMG 67' BORDERS thing while other news sources talk at length about the "exchanges of territories that are acceptable to both sides", speaking of the larger settlement clusters remaining in Israeli hands. Same speech, two different focuses, and on every side the talkback idiots who are like "OMG OBAMA IS ANTI-ISRAEL" (even though the man keeps talking about how Israel has the right to defend itself and that the Arab world needs to fucking recognize it or nothing will happen XP) even though quite frankly they States have technically been saying the same shit for decades and we all know absolutely nothing is going to change. >>;
Guess all I'm saying is, the mass media needs to be hit with mass drivers. That is all.
Onoes, some random family in the states have an OMG adopted 10-year-old kid and the game may traumatize them for life because one character mocks the main character for being adopted! ONOES SO INSENSITIVE. We can't have childish playground taunts in a videogame rated E for everyone! (note the news story calls the game a "Popular Kids' video game". Pffffffff. XD)
The news story then proceeds to do anything in its power to show the family as victims of this insensitivity and like "OMG, WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TALK TO HER ABOUT THIS EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS SHE'S ADOPTED AND OMG SHE KEEPS STICKING TO THE STORY THAT SHE DIDN'T HEAR IT WHICH MEANS SHE ISN'T READY TO TALK ABOUT IT OMG OMG OMG."
You know, maybe if you people lived in the real goddamn world you wouldn't be so shocked about it. Real life isn't all politically correct and sterile and secure.
Also, THIS is the full quote.
GLaDOS proceeds to pwn Wheatley for that comment rather quickly. XD
Using half-quotes out of context, over-dramatizing shit - all tried and tested methods used by news people to create the next sensation, even if it includes giving a stage to idiots who don't deserve it.
Or take the latest speech by Obama about the middle east where he... really doesn't say anything new. I've seen various reports on it: some (like Fox News, which are neither) make a point on emphasizing the OMG 67' BORDERS thing while other news sources talk at length about the "exchanges of territories that are acceptable to both sides", speaking of the larger settlement clusters remaining in Israeli hands. Same speech, two different focuses, and on every side the talkback idiots who are like "OMG OBAMA IS ANTI-ISRAEL" (even though the man keeps talking about how Israel has the right to defend itself and that the Arab world needs to fucking recognize it or nothing will happen XP) even though quite frankly they States have technically been saying the same shit for decades and we all know absolutely nothing is going to change. >>;
Guess all I'm saying is, the mass media needs to be hit with mass drivers. That is all.
