#news sensationalism

[hobbinch]

All mainstream news is biased. That's why I only get my information from my social media feeds, which are incapable of bias and always give me all the facts I need to assess current events with utmost journalistic integrity.

#like unfortunately a lot of news that isnt bad is also hard to sensationalize so you have to track it down yourself #also pleeeeease learn how to read and interpret biased sources instead of just ignoring news except what you hear about from word of mouth

[wild-moss-art]

I'll be real, not expecting twitters removal of the block feature to get it removed from any app stores. The reason tumblr has an NSFW ban is because it would be against the apple app store's terms of service, yet NSFW is allowed on twitter, which is sold on the same app store. Clearly the terms of service are not actually indicative of what they will allow. Twitter is a huge app that they are not interested in removing even when the terms of service are violated.

#idk it seems like people continue to expect these companies to follow their own rules #even when time and time again they tell us that their profits are more important than the 'rules' they put forth #these rules do not apply when significant amounts of money and users are involed #just my 2 cents on the issue #'twitter is dying' no the app is buggy as hell but people still use it as their main social media lmao it is not dying #poor management and sensationalized news does not a dead app make #the tos are there to protect the company not the user experience!! #if the profit from twitter offsets the hit they might take over user backlash. it is literally worth it

[know-news-is-good-news]

Excuse US but in the understanding of media sensationalism, we would like to see the crowds of supporters and NOT pictures of the arrested liar and conman who you like so much ! ! After seeing photos of MTG fleeing from the scene because see was overrun with protesters who want Donny Boy NOT JUST arrested, BUT ALSO OUT of their country, it's hard to believe crowds of anybody support this piece of SHIT ! ! No reasonable crowds of Trump supporters were seen anywhere in New York and you know IT ! !

#Donny #Boy #arrested #Crowds #of #supporters #anywhere #unseen #sensationalism #bad #news #cnn #get #your #shit #together #don't become #FOX #NEWS #just #because #is #dying

[goldenngore]

I will not hear an ounce of criticism over sam reids lestat. ever. 🤬

#ooc: back on sad boy shit. what's new? ( 🌱🌹🥀 ) #he was sensationally terrible #just like les should be #tom cruise wishes he could s

[navree]

i tonya is always a movie i'm gonna be annoyed exists, not cuz i dislike it (it's fine, its' not great but it's adequate and it has its moments) but because i have a vision in my head of a movie about that whole mess that is never gonna come to fruition because there's already been a major motion picture about it

#personal #like a) i'd love to have a more even focus on nancy as well as tonya and paralleling the stuff going on with them #cuz there were similarities but also points where paths diverged #(both grew up lower class but nancy had a much better support system and stable personal life that tonya did not) #plus leave it more ambiguous whether or not tonya was actually involved and do a lot more of the he said she said aspect #that i tonya sorta had but didn't really do anything with all that much #and also i'd really love to focus on the media ecosystem at the time #and the way the media specifically reacted to the entire thing #cuz there's this one moment at the end of i tonya that i liked but did not feel at all earned in that movie #where the news finally moving on from the attack and aftermath is juxtaposed with the beginning of coverage of oj simpson getting arrested #this other major news event of the 90s that had a lot of sensationalism and breathless media coverage and 24 hour news cycle thing #and if the movie had focused on that at all it could be really good #so yeah that's my whinge for the night #idk i'm a youngster so i'll still be around the next time a major anniversary of it pops up so maybe in 2044

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

I generally really like your content and interact with it pretty often but tbh I do think that you're kinda really dropping the ball with the whole Johnny Depp thing and are saying some really harmful things accidentally. I know that you probably couldn't give less of a shit and honestly I probably wouldn't either if an anon said stuff to me. But idk. I guess I kinda just encourage you to take more a step back and look at some things

anon I have been watching this drama for four years. Both have had their exes and family members say neither has an issue with being abusive, both parties still claim the other was abusive and manipulative. We will never have the full story because it’s her word against his and both have evidence of the other lashing out several times. In the end since neither person is pressing criminal charges against the other for domestic abuse or anything else, it absolutely should have been handled privately and not streamed as a spectacle. You cannot firmly pick a side fairly in this scenario unless you witnessed their relationship firsthand. They’ve both been generally scummy in the past so honestly there isn’t much gained from supporting either one blindly. They’re divorced and they are theoretically safe from any harm the other would bring upon them. I would not be shocked if one of them started drama over this AGAIN in another year or two. Give it time.

#Genuinely I’ve just watched public opinion swing back and forth between which one they support #and I’m bored of every year rolling over and finding a new hot take about how we all have to condemn the other now #stop sensationalizing a toxic relationship

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Today’s darling that was sacrificed: ~400 explaining that Morton Smith is kinda bad at translation and research.

#I’ve mainly been keeping it it bc I want to mention that he’s involved with the “controversy” with secret mark #but like why do I care if I can flag his name now? #if I ever get around to talking about it I can say ‘this guy was a pita when I was writing about Moses VIII’ #I was gonna do an episode on it soonish - assuming I could get hold of a new book published this year about the whole thing #but then a different podcast did an episode on it recently #and idk #i think calling it a dangerous text in som way plays in to conspiracy sensationalism about it #no it wasn’t a threat to established Christianity it was just yet one more non canonical text they are a dime a dozen no one cares

[chiropteracupola]

fun with ink pens

#em draws stuff #hornblower #henry v 1989 #back again back again #we've got a bush a (very small) henry an ilyaas and a couple of beaſts - the typical doodle subjects lately! #forgot my pencil but I get twitchy if I can't sketch during lectures #and so the really good red pen got its moment in the sun #enough that my space-filling leaves started bleeding over into the other drawings on the page! #in other news I picked up a pair of buckeyes on a walk and have been spinning them in my hand while I do other stuff #and sensationally this is such a pleasant experience

[fitzrove]

the duality of writing about an event and at the same time wanting to bite everyone else writing about the same event in pop history books and sensationalizing news articles that only exist for clicks/money/clout

#yes its about mayerling #i mean someone would probably think it's disrespectful to write inappropriate fanfic about the event but?? i'm not making money off of it #i think what irks me about a lot of pop history is that people act like they're uncovering some secret truth when actually the truth was #uncovered by german austrian academic historian brigitte hamann in the 1980s #and people are STILL so deeply WEIRD about suicide and mental illness and it makes me sick #crown prince rudolf can't read your weird news articles but depressed and suicidal people living today can :///// #idk one finnish newspaper had an article published as part of a series called 'weird deaths' with like a bloody ghost logo on it and?? #can you not #the framing is so weird #one thing i love about elisabeth the musical above all else is that it has this deconstructive critical take and ADMITS WITHIN THE WORK #ITSELF that it's just one story that might be completely made up #and it treats the figures it depicts without sensationalizing them #hell michael kunze even said in one faq answer that you're supposed to despise lucheni oajdjhhsj but the actors make him too compelling #yes i'm out here defending a dead white man who would've probably called me slurs if he knew i existed XD #or like derogatory terms associated with women who are doing other things than laughing and singing and whose lives don't center around him

[cyborgrhodey]

not my first tumblr post to hit it big after 12 years on here being banana (soft) misinformation 💀💀💀

#somebody shut me up #i mean i was just regurgitating 4 year old news so it was the media who sensationalized it first not me!!!!! #they may not have been the main bananas but the bananas are still gay. to me

[recallthename]

more than any other dead celebrity, i really wish people would leave marilyn monroe’s memory the fuck alone

#kim k wearing and damaging her dress #the new movie about her #everything just makes my stomach turn #i really hope to be wrong about this movie #but i cannot see a way in which it is not sexualizing and sensationalizing her life #more than it already has been #just fucking let her rest #the depersonalization of fame is always fucking terrifying #but the specifically gendered way it's been done to her... #just literally makes me feel sick #like again i would love to eat my words and this movie be a masterpiece #but at the same time #i don't even want us making masterpieces about her #let her be #she's no longer here to control her legacy #and it's so obvious that the people who are in charge of it aren't interested in her wishes #i just... your movie requiring an nc-17 rating (probably) because you've chosen to that graphically depict the assault of a real person #god these tags are nothing i'm just feeling real uncomfortable thinking about her rn

[thepoisonroom]

guys i gotta stop derisively referring to those weird transmisogynist gay girls as pussyologists bc i met a cis lesbian who's a pelvic floor PT who specializes in working with trans patients and it turns out that some of the actual professional pussyologists can hang! i need to clear their good name!!!

#i need some new mean thing to say #she was talking about specializing in affirming care for patients w vaginas including post-vaginoplasty PT #and how she thinks that public understanding of both vaginoplasty and phalloplasty are obfuscated by media sensationalism #and i was like wrow the ethical practice of pussyology 😳 #always odd to leave the internet and be reminded that there are plenty of cis people who are legitimately not-weird about gender #good for them........ #to be fair she did also say that she thinks a lot of cis people working in trans healthcare #are transphobic and esp transmisogynist freaks with god complexes and a hatred for poor and sick people #so we have it straight from the pussyologist's mouth that not all pussyologists can hang #nonetheless...... #personal nonsense #transmisogyny mention #genital mention

[bl00dw1tch]

Soooooo fucking tired of anti magic bitches SOOOOOO fucking tired. This includes people who get vitriolic about astrology--like listen i Know where youre coming from. I know its because of the new age spiritualism and the market preying on people desperate for easy "magical" fix-its. and im not some agent of Big Astrology playing devil's advocate or anything i dont care-care about it, but i care enough and have learned enough to say that the shit that makes you hate astrology is New and unfair to use to base your judgement of the concept as a Whole on. Astrology has always historically just been about pattern recognition. That is ALL it fucking is. You can believe it or not believe in it but decades of people who like to stare at the stars notice a lot of the same things about people born during certain times of the year, it is an informal long term study used for ppl to be able to help Educatedly Guess what others are Probably going to be like and what theyre own future is Probably going to be like that is IT!!!!! THATS IT!!!!!!!

It is not astrology's fault that people are fucking Stupid this is a Hate the Player Not the Game situation

#its pattern recognition its pattern recognition its pattern recognition even if its done 'badly' thats all it is thats IT #originally this was gonna stay abt magic in general but apparently the anti astrology shit has gotten to me lately. #and again i need to reiterate i DONT fucking care. i am not Invested in astrology. i just work at a witch store and inevitably learn shit #yes astrology shit in the news paper is sensationalized and fake as shit but thats not what its really about man. #but when you get your Full Chart done shit does tend to fucking line up. and if it doesn't then well. who FUCKING cares #its just so. ugh. i dont know. the pessimism of the world has been getting to me #anyway science is magic and magic is real. if you get it you get it. good luck

[yamnbananas]

The Daily Fail ! - Don’t believe the Hype !

#yamnbananas #london #trillnoir #dailymail #mainstream media #tabloids #propaganda #british government #british public #british news #newspaper #satire #satirical #the press #art #sheeple #whitewashing #press association #reporters #sensationalism #don’t believe the hype #peace and love

[haml3t]

My mom is such a dumb bitch in a way that might be funny if it weren’t so goddamn frustrating. She was saying abortion isn’t taboo anymore, most insurance plans cover it fully, and so it’s a free for all of people not using birth control because they know they can get an abortion, several abortions even.

I had to tell her that elective abortion isn’t covered on our health plan and it’s not fully covered even for life at risk/assault cases. I’m also on a project rn at work that requires me pouring over hundreds of medical insurance policies and not a single one covers elective abortion. This knowledge had zero impact on her.

#did you look it up bitch? have you ever looked anything up? no because you consider your ‘personal beliefs’ to be the same as facts #she’s the type to say ‘studies have shown’ when you KNOW she has never read a study of anything in her whole life #at most she watched the sensationalized report on the morning news or clicked some bait about it #she’s also a GREAT example of: #‘studies have shown even presenting ppl with overwhelming facts and evidence does not change their views’ ‘I don’t believe that’ #also ‘I know a woman like that’ as if it proves her entire point #OKAY????? so you know ONE person who’s gotten several abortions bc they’re irresponsible?

[tmarshconnors]

Box of illusions.

Let me start by saying yes over the years I have watched a fair amount of TV. I recall the days I came home from school and once I had dinner there I was at 6.00 pm watching the Simpsons, as I got older I started to spend most of my free time in school in the library. Oh, the books I read. From psychology, sociology, popular science religion etc. I have read many. Reading is a lost art nowadays.

Here’s the thing Television, the mesmerising box of illusions, has ensnared humanity in its clutches, stripping away our vitality and autonomy piece by piece. It's a relentless devourer of time, attention, and ultimately, our very souls. How, you might ask? Let me unleash a torrent of grievances against this insidious modern-day sorcerer.

First and foremost, television breeds passivity. It spoon-feeds us narratives, ideologies, and opinions, numbing our critical thinking faculties. We sit there, slack-jawed and drooling, as our brains rot with mindless entertainment and shallow distractions. Instead of engaging with the world, we're hypnotised by its flickering images, lulled into a state of intellectual torpor.

And don't even get me started on the insidious influence of advertising. Every commercial break is an assault on our senses, bombarding us with messages designed to manipulate our desires and insecurities. We're reduced to mere consumers, our identities shaped by the products we're told we need to buy to be happy, fulfilled, or desirable. It's a never-ending cycle of consumption and dissatisfaction, fuelling an insatiable hunger for more stuff we don't need.

But perhaps most damning of all is the way television distorts our perception of reality. We're fed a steady diet of sensationalism, distortion, and outright lies, blurring the line between fact and fiction until we no longer know what to believe. News becomes infotainment, truth becomes subjective, and critical issues are reduced to soundbites and talking points. We're left adrift in a sea of misinformation, our minds polluted by half-truths and outright fabrications.

And what do we sacrifice for the dubious pleasure of this electronic opiate? Our time, our relationships, our creativity, our very humanity. We sit alone in the dark, isolated from the world around us, as our lives slip away one wasted hour at a time. We forsake real experiences for simulated ones, genuine connections for virtual ones, and meaningful pursuits for empty distractions.

I am not saying that you should stop altogether. It's all about moderation. That's the problem. Everyone has forgotten it is about moderation. Never forget the revolution will not be televised.

It's time to break free from the shackles of our television addiction. We must reclaim our minds, our lives, and our souls from the clutches of this soul-sucking beast. Turn off the TV, unplug the cable, and rediscover the joy of living in the real world. Read a book, have a conversation, take a walk in nature—do anything, as long as it's real, authentic, and meaningful.

The time has come to rise against the tyranny of television and reclaim our humanity before it's too late. Let us break free from the chains of our electronic overlords and embrace the beauty and complexity of the world outside our screens. Our souls depend on it.

#Television #Passivity #Critical thinking #Mindless entertainment #Advertising #Consumerism #Perception of reality #Sensationalism #Distortion #Misinformation #Time consumption #Relationships #Creativity #Humanity #Moderation #Revolution #Addiction #Soul-sucking #Tyranny #Reclaiming humanity #today on tumblr #new blog