Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

The Name of Love

Far Right Nutjob
Well, modern patriarchy has failed, but so has everything else, but it’s only politically correct to blame patriarchy; the risk of people realising that every aspect of modern society has failed at every level because it is modern is perfectly unacceptable to them.
Well, their ideology is modern. And I'd hesitate to call anything a "patriarchy" in the modern age. Women make up both the majority of consumers, the majority of voters, the majority of college graduates, and the majority of teachers in educational institutions. They aren't exactly an oppressed group in society. The men in power cater to feminist ideology, which is, at least on its face, a female supremacist ideology (though it's a thoroughly self-contradictory one thanks to modernity and post-modernity). You pay homage to feminism, else you are considered an outcast in certain parts of society, in spite of how few people consider themselves feminists.
 
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Well, their ideology is modern. And I'd hesitate to call anything a "patriarchy" in the modern age. Women make up both the majority of consumers, the majority of voters, the majority of college graduates, and the majority of teachers in educational institutions. They aren't exactly an oppressed group in society. The men in power cater to feminist ideology, which is, at least on its face, a female supremacist ideology (though it's a thoroughly self-contradictory one thanks to modernity and post-modernity). You pay homage to feminism, else you are considered an outcast in certain parts of society, in spite of how few people consider themselves feminists.


Ah, you see, feminine essentialists regard democracy and capitalism as hypermasculine. It’s perhaps time for another thread in the Athenaeum, Sir. A very interesting one.
 

Nitramy

The Umbrella that Smites Evil
I don't know if this is relevant within this topic, but the fact that all the blue checkmarks on Twitter and in Silicon Valley and in New York are all schoolmarm bitching and nagging and whining about Dave Chappelle's latest special enlightened me about one thing.

If you think "the personal is political" then you're not allowed to laugh at yourself. And then you don't allow people to laugh at you. And then you confuse people laughing with you with people laughing at you.

And that's when you start the witch hunts and hashtags on Twitter hoping your blue checkmark army is going to join your outrage.

(Why aren't you allowed to laugh at yourself? Because to the woke, humor is punching up, not punching down. It's supposed to give you power, not take it away from you -- and self-deprecation is very weakening.)
 

The Name of Love

Far Right Nutjob
Ah, you see, feminine essentialists regard democracy and capitalism as hypermasculine. It’s perhaps time for another thread in the Athenaeum, Sir. A very interesting one.

For the record, I don't consider modernity to be feminine, but rather effeminate. Femininity is virtuous (as is masculinity). Effeminacy is the negation of virtue and corruption of masculinity, reducing man to a sniveling animal.

I don't know if this is relevant within this topic, but the fact that all the blue checkmarks on Twitter and in Silicon Valley and in New York are all schoolmarm bitching and nagging and whining about Dave Chappelle's latest special enlightened me about one thing.

If you think "the personal is political" then you're not allowed to laugh at yourself. And then you don't allow people to laugh at you. And then you confuse people laughing with you with people laughing at you.

And that's when you start the witch hunts and hashtags on Twitter hoping your blue checkmark army is going to join your outrage.

(Why aren't you allowed to laugh at yourself? Because to the woke, humor is punching up, not punching down. It's supposed to give you power, not take it away from you -- and self-deprecation is very weakening.)

Here's my idea on this: there's a certain type of personality that loves looking for "rule-breakers" and punishing them socially. It gives them a thrill. They get to be the people in power, the hero that punishes "evil." They get to wield the power of the mob. These kinds of people are the kind that often enter into things like Scientology. They will glom onto any power structure that allows them to act on their power fantasy. If we had a white nationalist country, these kinds of people would probably be the ones hunting down people they see as disloyal to the clan. They'd be going after David Chappelle and his comedy because he might have said something offensive about Hitler or whoever the power structure said was a good guy. Etc. This is a psychological phenomenon.
 

The Name of Love

Far Right Nutjob

Cherico

Well-known member
Fat feminist media lying liar who lies caught lying again. Cue the "Blood and Thunder".


If you lie about some thing like that then you don't have the right to call yourself a journalist, I mean fucking hell this is a violation of basic journalistic ethics.
 

Urabrask Revealed

Let them go.
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If you lie about some thing like that then you don't have the right to call yourself a journalist, I mean fucking hell this is a violation of basic journalistic ethics.
Hey, anything is justified if she seeks to harm the right people. The right people being, of course, on the wrong side of history, conservative, white males, or generally inconveniencing the progressive cause.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Unfortunately, they are quite sane, and understand what they are doing.

Maybe not so much as sane or insane and more horribly addicted and also psychopathic

They’re low functioning psychopaths who thrive off real dumb or approval seeking people



They’re all modern Ellsworth Toohey’s.....honestly a highly competitive and brutally pragmatic society with occasional bouts of genuine kindness and pragmatic niceness would be an improvement over the extremely shallow horrible nepotistic narcissistic revolution-obsessed prison they wish to create
 

GooseActual

We go hard on Earth!
If you lie about some thing like that then you don't have the right to call yourself a journalist, I mean fucking hell this is a violation of basic journalistic ethics.
A journalist lying to push a certain ideology is an activist.... lol what ethics?? Who needs ethics when they need to cram this shit down everyones throats for clicks bitchessss
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
A journalist lying to push a certain ideology is an activist.... lol what ethics?? Who needs ethics when they need to cram this shit down everyones throats for clicks bitchessss

Part of the problem is that those journalists are supposed to be the classical heroic underdogs fighting against a fascistic rich white old racist patriarchal men stereotype.....I think it’s really cliche and ingrained into Hollywood and fiction

So much they can’t tell or admit when THEY are the ones finally in charge or have been for years. The Revolution must keep fighting the EXACT SAME ENEMIES for the rest of their existence

They’re like the NCR from Navarro’s Fallout: Autumn Morning/Tales From New America/Eagle & The Bear

Freaking obsessed with the idea and memory of the old Enclave and incapable of seeing when they’re fighting something that’s actually moved past its worst while keeping its best(bonded numerous wastelanders with a sense of nationalism even though they weren’t born Enclave)and becoming reborn as something better
 

Nitramy

The Umbrella that Smites Evil
Part of the problem is that those journalists are supposed to be the classical heroic underdogs fighting against a fascistic rich white old racist patriarchal men stereotype.....I think it’s really cliche and ingrained into Hollywood and fiction

So much they can’t tell or admit when THEY are the ones finally in charge or have been for years. The Revolution must keep fighting the EXACT SAME ENEMIES for the rest of their existence

They’re like the NCR from Navarro’s Fallout: Autumn Morning/Tales From New America/Eagle & The Bear

Freaking obsessed with the idea and memory of the old Enclave and incapable of seeing when they’re fighting something that’s actually moved past its worst while keeping its best(bonded numerous wastelanders with a sense of nationalism even though they weren’t born Enclave)and becoming reborn as something better

The Who had a line from one of their songs that perfectly describes this situation.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

(It helps that the song is the opening of one of my favorite cornball cheesefest TV programs, CSI: Miami.)
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
The job of the journalists was always to present the facts in a way that suits the paymasters. Myth of independent journalism is just that, a myth. In the aftermath of WWII journalism gained some prestige and became a respected profession, a view that media continued to perpetuate, but with internet chipping at their facade of respectability they are openly reverting to their true self, propagandists and entertainers, doing it either for money or ideology.
 

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