#mainstream media sucks

[coffeeman777]

Always, ALWAYS be skeptical of anything the mainstream media reports about Israel, especially when the source is Hamas.

[godisarepublican]

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

i swear every article about how men are shifting rightward is like "democrats are ~losing male voters~ by treating women like human beings who also vote. why aren't they offering up free sex slaves to incels on a silver platter? is it because they're bad at politics? it must be because they're bad at politics"

[jangillman]

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[gameguy20100]

Are you familiar with the short story "The Monkey's Paw", by W.W. Jacobs? The titular object will grant you any wish, but the wish always has a nasty side effect (e.g. you wish for lots of money, but you get it from insurance because a family member dies in an accident). Anon thinks fandom itself has become a Monkey's Paw; we used to want fandom to go mainstream so us fans would feel less lonely. Well, we did get our wish; fandom went mainstream, but now has all of mainstream society's flaws.

Yes I am aware of that story. It's one of my favourites.

It's because those flaws have nothing to do with mainstream, or fandom but simply people.

[kiisaes]

mha is like an estranged awkward father to me. i try not to make my connection to it obvious but i secretly care a lot about it (sometimes against what i desire) and when ppl talk serious shit about it i get defensive. like yea i understand that it's not the best series writing-wise, it's got a good amount of problems and that its mere connection to me makes me cringefail ... but i'll always find some sort of unexplainable comfort in its arms despite its flaws bc there's still a good amount of it to genuinely enjoy without a constantly ironic state of mind that all media must be critiqued with nowadays and i don't expect anyone to understand this odd relationship but myself

[time4hemp]

Is anyone surprised that one of the debate moderators has ties to the CIA and CNN is refusing to allow ANYONE TO use footage from the debate with ANY UNAUTHORIZED COMMENTARY.

Please share this important short podcast.

[forgivenfolly]

people can have whatever personal taste they want obviously and this is NOT about whether people like certain themes or motifs personally but

i think it's funny that people latch onto "tropes" that barely exist outside of online gay spaces as being overdone and write up condescending posts like OHH WOOOW DEVOTIONAL CANNIBALISM? WHY DONT YOU THROW IN SOME DOG IMAGERY TOO when it's like name one mainstream piece of media that does this if it's so overdone in actual literature/film/etc. oh you can't name any immediately besides nbc hannibal? almost as if you're just making fun of amateur writers trying to do purple prose on their tumblr blogs? very interesting

[just-jammin]

thinking about how by the time i'm slowly accepting that i'm cringe and no one should be able to stop me

the people handling the things i'm being cringe abt are almost at the brink of falling in on themselves spectacularly and i'll have less opportunities to be cringe abt it due to the shitshow of a situation that is happening

haha :)

[fahk]

Covid II (a rant of frustration)

I guess I'll just be in isolation for the rest of my life.

God damn I despise the mainstream media. They do nothing useful in reporting information about health science at all. Such a disservice to the community.

Covid has been a huge example of how media fails. Examples: When the media lied to everyone about the vaccine being a cure for long haul. It's not. The constant misrepresentation of long haul as people who only have covid symptoms for up to eight or nine months. There are people now at year three. Constant downplaying of contagion, veracity, and spread of the virus and rarely questioning actual numbers from officials who've gotten it wrong before. The media does a lot of harmful covid reporting. One thing I wish they would report on is lingering contagion - i.e. the different time tables for clearing the virus - and that's shitty to not inform the public on.

I got infected last week because my boyfriend's company put a bunch of people into a small space without giving a damn. The event was last Friday. The following Sunday was day 0 for start of my symptoms. Because covid makes it look like I have all the worst autoimmune diseases handed to me in a gift basket I've been prescribed Paxlovid. My body doesn't do covid well at all. I did the antiviral round the following Tuesday - Saturday. And here I am now - a full seven days from onset and I am still VERY contagious. Even after a major round of antivirals and my symptoms are pretty much gone.

And as I continue looking into how long people can be contagious from covid I see well up to 20+ days?! It's just dependant on your health?!?! I'm sorry what?!?!?! Why don't I know about this? Why isn't this common knowledge?!?! Oh.... right. The media doesn't mention it. And let's think about it. How often has shitty CNN/NYTimes ect... headlined how covid infection is bad for immunocompromised as it is? Not a lot. But now there's this whole other thing no one's talking about where if you're an "autoimmunie" like I am - then it takes longer for the body to tackle covid and exterminate it from the body than a healthy person. EVEN WITH PAXLOVID.

Where are the news stories about not spreading covid for the sake of not isolating immunodeficient people for a fucking month? Like.... I have to work too! I have a need to see friends, family, pets just like anyone else! But it's rare just to see these shitty news orgs even acknowledge immunocomp people exist at all.

I am seven days into this second covid infection. The antiviral knocked the nasty part of it out in two-days and I am glad for that but I am still very contagious when most people are clear in three days. I am at seven and the line is dark red so I'm not clearing anytime soon. And because I've been isolated for so long now I'm depressed. My cats are on the other side of my door. I have to have a serious conversation with my partner and haven't been able to do. I missed a road trip to Utah to see a full eclipse. I missed a bike festival with a friend. I missed a Halloween party. And it looks like I'm going to miss another week of work. I had no idea the other huge reason why immuno issue people like me don't want covid, besides it messing our physical selves up, is it messes our existing lives up too for weeks!

I'm so mad. Mad at my partner's co-workers. Mad at his company. Extra mad at the media for neglecting to inform the public fully. Mad. This sucks. I wish I had known covid was spreading again in large events and I wish I had known that if I get it, chances are I'll be quarantined a lot longer than the average person. Unacceptable.

[danlous]

Oh to go back in time to 2012 and tell my teenage self living on some queerbaiting crumbs that in 10 years there would be so many gay people on television

[sparkerinparadise]

ANYWAYS. GOOD ANIMATED MEDIA. i wanna watch the new puss in boots movie so bad it looks BEAUTIFUL and i’ve only ever heard good things about it

[godisarepublican]

[endearingfascination]

I understand the sentiment of “The writer’s entitlement to their human rights is more important than you getting to consume their show without caring if the people behind it are treated humanely”, but a brief reminder that it is imperative we don’t devalue the line of work that the writers have dedicated their careers to by saying “fuck their shows” that they worked so hard on. They want to keep making their art, they want to keep writing their stories, and the corporations are the ones keeping them from being able to, by not treating them right. When a show gets cancelled, it’s a travesty for viewers, yes, but it’s ESPECIALLY a travesty for the writers who were pouring their hearts into it. Don’t take the side of the corporations by saying the writers’ work deserves to be cancelled.

(Tumblr user timemachineyeah said it best here.)

writer's strike is amazing actually go girl get that fucking marvel show UNMADE get that fucking gay pirate show CANCELLED get these chronically online fandom bitches' obsessions on HOLD until the corporations learn to pay you your mf money that you deserve

[jangillman]

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[cyarsk5230]

darn shame. It’s kcuf her now.