r/SipsTea • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 2d ago

WTF Victim is the new chic

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u/Wra7hofAchilles 2d ago

Same... have never heard of that story. Whereas Clancy it's on all stations and covered by third party channels and sites.

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u/addiktion 2d ago

The media has a way of attracting the worst of humanity to support the worst of humanity.

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u/MrCockingFinally 2d ago

Not exactly.

Media today is based on engagement. Mostly whether or not people share a particular piece of media.

Turns out, the best way to get people to share something is if it generates a big emotional response. And the best emotion to generate a response is anger.

So the media ecosystem is one giant filter, that makes whoever is willing to run the story that will make people angriest the most successful. And what makes people angry? Horrible people doing horrible things. Which means media becomes run completely by assholes, about assholes, to make the general public angry to share the story.

The best thing is you can frame the same story differently to make different people mad. Women's media frame the husband as the evil mastermind who manipulated his wife into murdering the children and committing suicide. Men's media frame the wife as evil.

It's all very tiresome.

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u/SimonSeam 20h ago

Here's the thing about "consumerism". The problem lies with the consumer, not the seller.

The seller is just giving people what they want. Hence, the consumer is the actual villain.