After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ideally, we’d stop caring about people because of the sole fact they have a lot of money.

    Unfortunately, that’s gonna exclude a lot of money modern-day “journalism” probably relies on.

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      1 year ago

      I think in a lot of cases, it’s less about them having a lot of money and more about how they’re able to effect change using that money or the power/influence associated with that money. Unfortunately, this can often happen at a relatively large scale, like by upending a popular social media platform or disrupting the automobile industry (for good or ill) or discussing futuristic public transportation ideas to take the wind out of the sails of more realistic/attainable projects and efforts.

      All things considered, I wouldn’t mind hearing less about these people - a lot less. We’re well into mud slinging territory and some of these dickheads absolutely thrive on that. I’m sure the worst of them feel egged on when the media talks about them so they say or do more crazy shit very publicly to draw attention from fanboys and detractors alike. Call it a vicious cycle… or a hyperloop or something.

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        1 year ago

        I decided to stopped posting things about him after he made that laughable announcement that he’d pay the legal bills of anyone fired because of their tweets. He did it purely for attention, and I realized I don’t want to help give it to him anymore.

        I made an exception for this article because it’s not about him, but about how writers can’t just keep uncritically covering every stupid thing he says.

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          1 year ago

          fair enough and fwiw, that’s what i was kind of echoing. “we’re” in mud slinging territory as a culture, but journalists/opinion-piece-writers/whatever are massive drivers of it.

    • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Well no, he actually is the public face for a few companies. He’s not just a rich dude.

      But yeah the current coverage is teetering on celebrity gossip but then again his public antics can influence a bunch of companies.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Ideally, we’d stop caring about people because of the sole fact they have a lot of money.

      Well currently, we need to focus on them, but specifically on the exploitation that was required for them to make that money, and on the damage them hoarding so much of it does to the rest of us.

      Then ideally we finally turn on them en masse and abolish the system that not only enables, but thrives on, and even requires inequality and resource disparity to exist. At that point we no longer have to worry about the disgusting and harmful worship of the super wealthy because there will be no super wealthy. Instead everyone will have their needs met.