Once you’ve seen how slow off the mark the media is, you can’t unsee it
While it is of course a sad fact of life that modern journalism sometimes consists of little more than repurposing Reddit, at least some are still dedicated to fact checking before posting.
Take Natarsha Belling’s unfortunate wardrobe choice, first posted on Reddit nearly 72 hours ago with the message “When you see it you cannot unsee it.”
Clearly in the nearly three days that have passed since this post about the Ten newsreader went viral, the crack investigative team at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph have been ensuring they have every T crossed and I dotted before finally posting on Facebook the same fucking message.
To be fair, the story that Facebook post links to includes the following paragraph: “A screenshot of Belling… has been liked over 110,000 times on Unilad’s Facebook page captioned: ‘Once you see it, you cannot unsee it’.”
It also has an embedded Tweet from someone sprouting the same ‘can’t unsee it’ line. Perhaps the Facebook post took inspiration from those things? Regardless, dropping an F bomb like you have seems a bit extreme, don’t you think?
Furthermore, the story is about the picture going viral. That’s made very clear in the opeing par. In that sense, your dig about “repurposing” Reddit content is invalid.
One more thing, it might’ve been “first posted on Reddit almost 72 hours ago” but it exploded on social media in a big way some 20 hours ago.
Surprising why? I mean News Corp’s new.com.au is literally the stuff you read on Reddit yesterday today as it is.
This story is perhaps the worst thing to ever happen. Unilad, Facebook trending recognition, Reddit thieving. You know something is god-awfulwhen it’s featured on the SMH’s weird ‘we don’t understand viral so have some clickbaity not-news’ section on their website.
Or maybe some of these publishers want the view to click through to see the image, rather than just viewing it on Facebook.
Either way, what is this story all about? I thought Mumbo was supposed to be a little ‘odd spot’ type section of the website, not a bitch fest.
Wow.
Missing the basics of social media much author with no name?
The real criticism that should be leveled at ALL of these outlets is why none of them posted this on their respective MySpace accounts…
#missedopportunity
They’ve cropped it so they get click throughs. 2Day aren’t generating revenue directly off Facebook interactions.
Kittens are out – dresses are in.