Dude, this article was designed purely to get this exact reaction out of you so that you would drive traffic to news.com.au.
It's not news... it's purely about one person's (not even someone particularly well known) opinion to another person's achievements. Even if the person was extremely famous, it's still not news. There would have been literally hundreds of thousands of supportive comments/opinions to choose from, but news.com.au chose one that would make people dunk on it to drive traffic. They deliberately took an opinion that literally everyone disagrees with purely for traffic - hell, the author is probably doing the exact same thing.
Traffic is money, so rage-bait like this is extremely profitable nonsense that you're now contributing to.
Don't fall for it man, it's literally not good for yours (or anyone's) mental health. This isn't worth your time.
I know, and I even predicted this response from you :) All news is like this - clickbait for a reaction. None of it is well supported by the majority of opinion, it is all cherrypicked. However, that doesn't stop it from influencing the majority of opinion, especially if there is already a preference.
Yes - all about attention.
Hahaha, I do like to be consistent.
You've written before about how MSM is corrupt and can't be trusted, so it does require some media literacy and mental discipline from us all to not feed into it. You've now driven traffic to news.com.au and given them exactly what they wanted.
I will say that not all news is like this. Think of Watergate or Dieselgate, investigative journalism created real consequences and societal change - it used to be that journalism was society's main defense against corruption - so those of us who don't just mindlessly follow the masses need to support good investigative journalism and be disciplined against ragebait.
For sure. but, hopefully one or two people who go there see it through a slightly different lens than they would have. That media literacy takes time and effort to build.
It has been a while since much was done. The investment it takes for the 5 minutes it will be seen. Look at how the Panama papers, which was a whistleblower dump so not as much work was needed, just disappeared.
I don't know if you remember the "Family" of pedophiles in Adelaide from the 80s. They killed children and there was evidence supposedly that incriminated some very high up people - disappeared.
The things that actually matter, don't seem to get much light of the day.
I'm pretty sure he knows this, and I'm also pretty sure this could be considered a "triggering" topic for him (seeing as "trigger" seems to also cover "don't get me started" topics as well as ones that cause ptsd/fight or flight responses as far as I can tell purely from observation of statistically insignificant sample sizes) :)
Yeah, I'm sure you're mostly likely right... I just get so annoyed when media companies or influencers deliberately rage-bait because it just works so incredibly well... and distracts everyone from actual real issues that we should be working on.
Unfortunately I think rage-bait works best on triggering topics. Declare something about pineapple on pizza, get 100 comments... declare something political or about gender or race... 100,000 comments.
It is infuriating. One of many reasons I don't attend mainstream news at all anymore.
And absolutely which is why they do it all the time, guaranteed a massive over the top reaction from people who want to feel justifiably outraged and have zero emotional control (that thing Taraz likes to yammer on about incessantly XD).
It's so annoying.
The way I see it is that journalists are really the only defense society has against high-level corruption of politicians and CEOs - but they're not going to spend time and money doing that work when they can just earn their coin on low-effort, non-news articles about one person's social media opinion.
pineapple is good on pizza.
STRONG AGREE!