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[swag]

I think the main problem here is an insane cultural paranoia perpetuated by irresponsible media coverage. Youve got white people being told dangerous minorities will break into your house at night and rape your family and other side being told that racist cops are actively hunting down and killing them. Both are rare incidents and no reason to be walking around ready to kill the first person who looks at you wrong.

I get what you're saying. But the media exists for conflict and fear. It sells papers. And they're only delivering what our amygdala has been pre-programmed to respond to. Despite keyboard cats.

You could call it irresponsible media coverage, but that's what we humans will tune in to.

 

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[Martin]

I get what you're saying. But the media exists for conflict and fear. It sells papers. And they're only delivering what our amygdala has been pre-programmed to respond to. Despite keyboard cats.

You could call it irresponsible media coverage, but that's what we humans will tune in to.

Isn't that just passing the buck? Since we know people respond to it a certain way, shouldn't we prevent the media for stimulating those fears?

 

[swag]

Isn't that just passing the buck? Since we know people respond to it a certain way, shouldn't we prevent the media for stimulating those fears?

It is a cop out for the media. But to blame social attitudes on biases that have existed since we sat in animal skins and told gossip around a burning wildebeest is a red herring.

 

[Martin]

It is a cop out for the media. But to blame social attitudes on biases that have existed since we sat in animal skins and told gossip around a burning wildebeest is a red herring.

I don't get your point. The media abuses something that we know is a part of us. So since they're not the cause we should give them a break (?) and do what exactly? Genetic engineering to rid ourselves of this instinct?

What's the pragmatic solution here.

 

[Seven]

That also doesn't explain why the media are not doing this all over the world..

 

[GordoDeCentral]

That also doesn't explain why the media are not doing this all over the world..

this article here is worse than anything ive seen in american media of late \

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shard-shrapnel-lodged-forehead-airstrike.html

 

[Seven]

this article here is worse than anything ive seen in american media of late \

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shard-shrapnel-lodged-forehead-airstrike.html

Yeah, but that's the Daily Mail. If you go out and ask the British whether that newspaper is to be taken seriously, not even their own reads will say it should. Other than that we've obviously got a fair bit of fearmongering in our newspapers too. What we don't have is lobby groups that buy every single piece of publishing space to prevent, for example, gun control laws.

EDIT: just read the comments below the article, lots of criticism towards the Daily Mail.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Yeah, but that's the Daily Mail. If you go out and ask the British whether that newspaper is to be taken seriously, not even their own reads will say it should. Other than that we've obviously got a fair bit of fearmongering in our newspapers too. What we don't have is lobby groups that buy every single piece of publishing space to prevent, for example, gun control laws.

EDIT: just read the comments below the article, lots of criticism towards the Daily Mail.

my point is this type of journalism is not exclusive to one nation

wait what?

 

[Seven]

my point is this type of journalism is not exclusive to one nation

wait what?

Of course not. It's just the extent that differs.

 

[Hust]

This months hot topic thread. My quote inbox is off the charts I never see this kind of bandwidth

 

[Martin]

This months hot topic thread. My quote inbox is off the charts I never see this kind of bandwidth

best thing that ever happened to you?

 

[Seven]

best thing that ever happened to you?

No, that would be his gun.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

This would never happen in Belgium.


Finland, or Norway, perhaps, but not Belgium.

 

[swag]

I don't get your point. The media abuses something that we know is a part of us. So since they're not the cause we should give them a break (?) and do what exactly? Genetic engineering to rid ourselves of this instinct?

What's the pragmatic solution here.

I wouldn't say the media abuses it. I would say they are conditioned by their audiences to deliver news that's driven by conflict and fear, because humans seek out and remember that stuff 10x more likely than they are to care about much encouraging news. We're wired for it.

The point wasn't to give the media a break... even though I am trying to make the point that the media is us and we're complicit in it. My point was to suggest that fear and scare tactics about crime and race aren't a new phenomenon that the media just made up. Grandmothers gossiped this garbage for generations before humanity knew what a knob was.

That also doesn't explain why the media are not doing this all over the world..

Not in countries where the government more closely controls the stories reported, for one.

this article here is worse than anything ive seen in american media of late \

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shard-shrapnel-lodged-forehead-airstrike.html

British media is some of the best and worst at the same time.

This would never happen in Belgium.


Finland, or Norway, perhaps, but not Belgium.

And definitely not in Claudio's bionic rectum.

 

[Fake Melo]

This would never happen in Belgium.


Finland, or Norway, perhaps, but not Belgium.

You are alive

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

I am a robot, a brain scan of BRUKE!

 

[Hust]

No, that would be his gun.

 

[Fake Melo]

Campus Shooting Came After Fight Between Two Groups of Students

http://abcnews.go.com/US/deadly-sho...niversitys-flagstaff-campus/story?id=34363113

 

[Seven]

It's pretty obvious that if more students had been armed this wouldn't have happened.

 

[Fake Melo]

It's pretty obvious that if more students had been armed this wouldn't have happened.

What I find funny is that many of the people arguing that more people should be armed are the same ones that also blame mental health every time it happens.

So we have too many crazy people, let's arm them.