If you want to stop reading this type of article, stop reading this type of article
In this post, Cathie McGinn argues why rewarding the hateful with mainstream media attention perpetuates social media misbehaviour…
In this weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, soi-disant “Tabloid Terror,” gossip columnist Ros Reines devoted almost a full page to calling A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw a hypocrite for her criticism of “social media bullies.”
In essence, it’s a non-story, much like Grimshaw’s original tirade, and in fact, if you keep on going down the rabbit hole, you find yourself lost in the cold dark emptiness of a desolate planet, much like that ad for Tooheys, wandering in and out of a series of increasingly drab house parties where all the booze has run dry.
“Why translate their jaundiced opinions and intemperate language into news copy that’s supposed to actually carry some authority?” asks Grimshaw. Without getting into a debate about the editorial policies of ACA and Today Tonight, this attack on internet users is just the latest in a long line of what could best be described as social media hothoused hype.
I’d pay money to watch a Pay per View of Grimshaw and Reines go toe to toe in the UFC Octagon. Maybe with weighted handbags.
She made the one big mistake of teh internets: she fed the trolls.
If they don’t bring attention to it, how am i supposed to know what to ignore??
More Art and Music in the curriculum would help to re-balance containerised thinking . . methinks.
Good piece. And you’re right. Cars don’t kill people. Rappers do.