I hate when journalists pull random quotes from Twitter to illustrate a “trend” that isn’t really significant. The Toronto Star exemplified this when they put a bunch of inflammatory quotes from Twitter about the unvaccinated for a story about how Covid is dividing us all. “LET THEM DIE etc.” As if anybody outside of Twitter actually wan…
I hate when journalists pull random quotes from Twitter to illustrate a “trend” that isn’t really significant. The Toronto Star exemplified this when they put a bunch of inflammatory quotes from Twitter about the unvaccinated for a story about how Covid is dividing us all. “LET THEM DIE etc.” As if anybody outside of Twitter actually wants the unvaccinated to die. It also raises questions, like: how did the Toronto Star verify these are real people behind those Twitter accounts who aren’t intentionally trolling or trying to stoke division?
There is a whole ecosystem of Canadian journalists as well who spend their lives “reporting” on extremely minor internet characters with 13 000 followers on Telegram who say racist things, and have subsequently come to believe that this reflects a massive white supremacy problem in the country that’s out to murder all the journos. Whereas if they just used the block feature and touched grass a little more often they would find the country isn’t as awful as they believe.
I hate when journalists pull random quotes from Twitter to illustrate a “trend” that isn’t really significant. The Toronto Star exemplified this when they put a bunch of inflammatory quotes from Twitter about the unvaccinated for a story about how Covid is dividing us all. “LET THEM DIE etc.” As if anybody outside of Twitter actually wants the unvaccinated to die. It also raises questions, like: how did the Toronto Star verify these are real people behind those Twitter accounts who aren’t intentionally trolling or trying to stoke division?
There is a whole ecosystem of Canadian journalists as well who spend their lives “reporting” on extremely minor internet characters with 13 000 followers on Telegram who say racist things, and have subsequently come to believe that this reflects a massive white supremacy problem in the country that’s out to murder all the journos. Whereas if they just used the block feature and touched grass a little more often they would find the country isn’t as awful as they believe.