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As for the ADL: feed a bear and they will happily take it. Ten minutes of research and they would have seen it's a troll.
>The OK hand gesture and its link to white nationalism began as a hoax cooked up by users of the website 4chan, who falsely linked it to white supremacy, according to the ADL. It was meant to bait the media or people with liberal ideals to overreact, ADL experts say, and therefore look ridiculous for condemning such an innocuous sign. This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant unc…
>This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant uncontrolled new media. You seem to have this idea of "old" media being a bunch of out of touch old people typing on typewriters and using rotary phones, and "new" media being hip punk kids sticking it to the man with their dank memes and irony, but this is a myth. They're the same thing now. Old media transitioned into the new media lan…
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>This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant uncontrolled new media. You seem to have this idea of "old" media being a bunch of out of touch old people typing on typewriters and using rotary phones, and "new" media being hip punk kids sticking it to the man with their dank memes and irony, but this is a myth. They're the same thing now. Old media transitioned into the new media lan…
The distinction is about business models and cost of doing business. When your costs are high and you are owned by a mega corp, there is a high probability that some of your stories are compromised. This is pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention and has been since at least Bush 2 and probably earlier.
And plenty of independent new media has been compromised by political and ideological interests.
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The distinction is about business models and cost of doing business. When your costs are high and you are owned by a mega corp, there is a high probability that some of your stories are compromised. This is pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention and has been since at least Bush 2 and probably earlier.
That's a distinction between corporate new media and independent new media, not new and old. And plenty of independent new media has been compromised by political and ideological interests.
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That's a distinction between corporate new media and independent new media, not new and old. And plenty of independent new media has been compromised by political and ideological interests.
Plenty of old media too.