#media fuckery

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I have become more detached from the news media bullshit and try to avoid it. It’s miserable to listen to. At most I watch local news because it directly affects me. I’m afraid I will become a normie as a result of not keeping up with the national and international news as much and will become brainwashed. 

I wonder is that how boomers sold out? They just got burned out from the bullshit of the 70′s and decide to have families in the 80′s, but in the process became brainwashed for comfort and stability?

I know I’m just spit-balling here but I wonder at times.

[katefatale]

Read that headline on that other site before my coffee on this bright morning...

Goddamn I hate the way comics sites talk about the al Ghuls.

"All Around Terrible Person Talia al Ghul is a Real Piece of Shit, Right, Guys? What Shitty Terrible Thing Will She Do Next? Man, She Sucks."

I mean, it's all clickbait ways of trying to predict whatever the fuck is happening, but funny how their tactic always assumes their audiences will go with them on blaming Talia for every goddamn thing. They basically sound like this now:

"Bruce Wayne trips over a stair leaving a gala, DID TALIA AL GHUL DO THIS?

A month after being depicted on a staircase, Talia is conspicuously absent when Bruce sort of kind of misses a step and has to catch himself. Since her family is so old, she undoubtedly has some kind of holding in an architectural firm, probably one that has done work in Gotham. Back in Batman #8000000002, we learn that this building underwent renovations only five years ago, so there's a realistic possibility that Talia had her dudes plant a flaw in this one stair on the side Bruce typically favors walking down. What's next for this piece of shit character? Causing a traffic jam to make Damian late for school on exam day?"

[crane-among-celandines]

Ah yes, the Conservative party raising the minimum wage to £10.50 is backed by experts, but the Labour party raising it to £10 will create soaring unemployment.

Of course.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

The establishment news outlets like the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and New York Times talk of war on terror like its over when it’s still going on. And they support the US foreign policy that creates this. It’s still going on and they’re complicit in it’s propagation and they won’t acknowledge it.

[poseysprostate]

poseysfingers replied to your post “I don't rlly know how to feel about o'brosey rn tbh... that Hollywood...”

also the whole "dylan never mentions posey in interviews" might be because no one ever asks? People ask posey about dylan allll the time so of course he's gonna talk about him ��

Tiff!!!  I didn’t mention that because it was supposed to be an exercise for the reader to solve.  How are we going to cultivate the next generation of stans if they can’t flex their media criticism muscles??

[tumb1d]

If anyone wants to see what a real smear campaign looks like check out Gary Linker’s recent feud with the Daily Mail. He’s been calling them out on their bullshit on Twitter, instead of keeping his mouth shut... almost as though he isn’t being made to tolerate media shit-talking him and his loved ones.

[iampackratseemehoard]

A very good reason that Harry and his team would intentionally give the paps/tabs "fodder" by being seen with Glenne

Imagine you’re trying to tread water with your image. There have been not-straight rumors since forever. Any further in that direction and you’d have to go full coming out, which it’s not time for yet.

Imagine knowing the tabloids are gonna speculate about you and some woman because it’s an easy story and it fits into common public perception.

Imagine that, for some reason that might or might not have to do with a hideous contract you’ve been in since you were 16, you’re not allowed to correct any media speculation that might arise about you dating/fucking/collecting binders full of women. Which means that any woman linked with you could take full advantage of an opening and spew lies about you that the tabs would lovingly lap up and propagate. Any “source” claiming inside knowledge of her or you could do the same.

Now, if you knew such an article was gonna be written bc the tabs gotta write their story, and you were this hobbled, what would be the best course of action?

If only there were some woman you could be seen with that would mitigate the damage. Someone you trusted, who you knew wouldn’t go to the tabs themselves. Someone that unknown sources couldn’t make shit up and go to the tabs about because the woman is already in a very public serious relationship. Someone your fans won’t seriously speculate about you hooking up with for the same reason, even though some of them are defensively seeking signs of your masculinity and heterosexuality due to your recent prominent display of androgyny and a continued lack of expressed sexual interest in woman. If only there were someone like that.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

For some reason the way the media presented the Derek Chauvin trial felt off. Derek Chauvin was a piece of shit that deserved punishment but, the media treat it as some great progress and victory even though the fundamental problems with police militarization haven’t been addressed. That and most of the time they’re complicit in this shit and manipulating people all the time. Like the whole thing feels disingenuous. I don’t know why but something about it feels off. I guess it’s the way the reporters talk about it. I saw it on CBS and they talk in a very self important manner. 

[magicblackgirls]

My deserves better trinity.

[sassyraconteur]

Dear PR,Management,Admin for Louis Tomlinson public image team

I know you lot were degree holders and probably older and hopefully wiser than me. But I only have one quick question: Have you lot heard about ‘Logic’? What you were doing to this person’s image is quite insulting. He is your “merchandise” sure. But he is also a human being and you were making him a laughing stock for other people who wasn’t even in your target market. Those people who didn't even know what’s going on and probably not care but being constantly putting out there these people will get curious and then Bam, they would think of him as this guy who couldnt keep his dick on his pants and fathered a slut. Sure this could be a daily occurrence in other parts of the world, but LOUIS TOMLINSON didn't deserve any of this.

You were trying so hard for this bullshit to drag on longer than necessary. It's not even funny anymore. It starting to become annoying. But oh well, you gotta do what you gotta do right? Got some mouth to feed eventho it came from other human’s expense.

Cruel world right?

Hope you lot could sleep at night.

Work is work right? Nothing personal right?

And by the way, NO ONE BELIEVE ABOUT THE NONEXISTENT BABY.

Good luck pushing that narrative. And this wasn't even about you, forcing another person sexuality anymore it is you being manipulative.

But it was funny no one in your target market believe you. Cause it was all bullshit anyways and you forgot that your target market named the fans are more smart and logical than you lot are.

So kindly stop being stereotypical. Its 2016.

Have a good life! ;)

[louislumbarcurve]

I find that the average teenage girl is so switched on re: human rights and social issues these days, and I find it so fucking insulting when these fuckhead interviewers ask 1D questions like “what do you look for in a girl?” and justify it by saying the fans want to know. 

1D’s fanbase is primarily made up of teenage girls, and most of them can see straight through that bullshit. Most of them know that question is heteronormative, as well as outdated because it plays into that old marketing strategy where the idea is if girls get to imagine they might one day have a chance with the boys, they will keep buying albums and merchandise. They realize it’s a pappy boring fluff question that does nothing to help the boys legitimize their image as serious singer-songwriters. 

Honestly, I’m just so sick of it? It’s insulting to the boys and it’s insulting to the fans because they’re basically treating all of them as if they’ve not grown at all in the five years the band’s been around. As somebody who thoroughly encourages young women to make their voices heard about the things that piss them off, please take to twitter and the inboxes of the people asking these vapid, archaic questions and tell them exactly what you think of them. Because you deserve more than that, and so do our boys.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I don’t know why the American media obsessed with British royalty. It’s very annoying. I don’t care about the British monarchy and they keep trying to shove that shit in my face. Didn’t we have a war so we don’t have to give a shit about what the British monarchy thinks?

[magicblackgirls]