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Originally Posted by transplant99
No...I mean innocent. I mean guys that get labelled as something that did nothing.
Sorry but just because someone says something happened and it cant be proven in a court of law, that does not make them guilty anyhow....THATS the trouble.
I understand that men have taken advantage of situations forever, and those that have should be drawn and quartered. We used to have a system for determining this. That system has now been replaced by 144 character statements from anonymous to well known people, and voila...a persons life is altered, or even ruined. No real investigative process involved...just allegations.
Social media, for all its awesomeness and usefulness at times, has become a bane on everything I believe this country stands for. Even worse IMO, there seems to be zero desire to alter this course. Frightening stuff.
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I was thinking about this last night when I was tossing and turning and my brain goes from sane to insane.
But the whole idea of social media posts has really changed the perception of the news and how its formulated not only into opinion, but into a weapon.
People are so reliant on the 144 limitation that they are basically only getting a snap shot of whatever story and the summary rage creating view that it represents.
In the old days on TV or in the papers, you'd get full columns or editorials where they would have to fill a quarter page or more with words, and because of that no matter the bias, there would be a lot more relevant information.
Now people take that one look at those 144 words and make their decision.
I tent to think that the way that news services and reporters craft their 144 is based on a gut punch creation of an emotional response.
I think in some ways its damaging, and so highly effective at what it does that its literally a smart bomb.