Would you get upset if your local news did an expose on a private citizen that was distributing bumper stickers advocating to kill all Muslims or celebrate the death of black people at the hands of the police?
Of course not, I'd hope they'd get arrested for hate crimes. I can only imagine this is a "gotcha" if you think I'm either a racist or a moron tied down to some dumb ideologue. Either way, a pretty damn stupid line.
I will say again that I think CNN did a particularly awful job of contextualizing both what the actual behavior was that prompted their reaction and their justification process for both being willing to identify the culprit and why they did not,
Then why even quote me if that's the main point of my posts?
but I do not fundamentally find anything immoral, unethical, or inapproriate for a news outlet to investigate a matter like this and report their findings. And who knows if they considered the retaliation or not, i'm not sure that really matters...
CNN is an international news outlet, they always need to consider how their actions affect the national political landscape.
This situation becomes wholly inappropriate with how they handled it, because dumb mistakes and posturing has a wave of reaching the public and influencing them. It's the same reason why people on the left/right have been trashing CNN's reporting for years pre-Trump.
CNN loves to follow serious shit like it's entertainment show.CNN fails to ever take a hard stance on their reporting and always goes for the softball bullshit that leaves plausible deniability for terrible shit that goes on all the time.
This time they did it by injecting themselves into the story by making an article about how they "tracked down the meme maker" and how they directly expressed their right to release their personal identity.
Ok, so what wrong with that? One, the entire premise of their story is that they found a gif that they didn't like about them and used their resources to see how terrible the rabbit hole was and later going out to find the identity the prick. Then they express their rights to release his info, as if they needed to as a news outlet, instead of just naming the person and moving on like every other respectable news outlet. Instead, by directly inserting themselves into the story, they let everyone know that should any of his apology change that they should release info. But what the fuck's the point of just publicly posturing like that, what do you gain from that? Instead you're literally batsignaling vigilante internet cunts to follow through with this information in the event they don't like what this shitposter does next.
How about being a respectable outlet and just publishing the info as a result of investigating and gathering information? What is this posturing that ultimately led into this backlash to the general public and further scrutiny of news sources?
And who knows if they considered the retaliation or not, i'm not sure that really matters, at least not as a justification for burying their investigation. That reads almost counter-intuitive tbh.
Again, it's not about "burying" information. The way CNN handled it is the problem. And guess what, if CNN decided not to send resources to investigate a fucking dumb meme maker they got mad over they wouldn't even have been in this mess.
Instead an INTERNATIONAL NEWS SOURCE is making a top headline about how they pursued a random meme maker (which the title of the article is focusing on), how he was found to share racist image macros/terrible posts, and included a masturbatory line at the end
purely to show their dick. All of this focus, attention, and articles on just some random racist prick that posted a CNN meme when they don't have been under fire for not properly pursuing or covering some of Trump's most terrible decisions.
But why? Because this shit has generated a few articles and a ton of clicks for them, it's just the latest story in the entertainment cycle. They
needed to inject themselves directly as an active player into the story as opposed to just identifying them passively. They wouldn't have gotten what they wanted otherwise, because their vested interest doesn't lie in actually exposing him.
You uncover evidence of a repeated history of racist and advocacy for violence against minority groups and out of fear of retaliation from said group, you bury your stories indefinitely? Sounds like something, not sure I would call it journalism.
Again, CNN doesn't give a damn about that in this case. The actions they took in this story show they don't care about exposing them. I actually think it's laughable if you truly believe CNN, of all places, is putting somebody on spotlight because they think the racist image macros they share are a detriment to society. That they'd be burying their heads in the sand to not put up this "hard-hitting" piece.
This is being directly manipulated as just another entertainment article that CNN became a direct player in purely for the $. If they actually cared they would have already posted his info.
The racism and advocation of violence towards minorities is not the issue guys, its whatevs, it's those dirty journalists that show up in my safe space with the audacity to not actually tell anyone who was in there.
I mean, what is that like a threat or something? Someone should alert the authorities while I go doxx and harass the friends and family of the employees. Norms and laws need to be respected!!
We can't be letting "Fake News" waste time on investigating wrestling GIF's and Trump forums that innocently advocate genocide and celebrate bodyslamming reporters, while they ignore the real stories ...Did you hear that guy on 4chan said the person was 15? How come the left wing media won't report that? Someone needs to quickly write a ton of articles about how CNN deliberately targeted and threatened a 15 year old kid for simply posting wrestling GIFs. Get the truth out there!
#NOMOREFAKENEWS, #FNN, #SETHRICH
Not even touching this spastic post.
