[Titan2]

Originally Posted by #-3

To be clear, I understand how this sounds like special pleading, but consider if you will the way news cycles currently work.

Someone working for the western standard or the rebel wakes up in the morning, knowing that unless they can get thousands of clicks their irrelevant little rag will cease to exist and they will lose their job. They know that people talk about and share outrages while ignoring politics when their is no news. So they write an article saying "how outrageous is this thing that is not news", then stupid people click on the link and say "yes that is outrageous", then the MSM whose job it is to get clicks goes, "Oh no everyone is clicking on that article we aren't covering", so they start covering the not news, but in the 3rd paragraph they stipulate that it isn't news so they can feel better about themselves for reporting facts, and pretend that they aren't aware that none of their readers make it to the 3rd paragraph.

It's incumbent upon us to not be the stupid people who buy into the fake outrage.

I was with you until the last line. That is a bridge too far!