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- Apr 1, 2017
With regard to the Ben Collins defence, I think some people are missing the point a little.
Yeah, it's a piss-poor denial. Yeah it's suspicious as fuck. Yeah if it were really the case Lucas would have cleared up the strange coincidence immediately. But it's not meant to be convincing.
Ben and his whole Journo-industrial complex may be plainly shit writers wihout an independent though in the last decade. But what they are good at - from years of practice - is writing articles that make people who already agree with them feel good.
The target audience of his flustered rebuttal (that he obviously contacted Lucas before publishing to get straight with him) are people who already believe (or want to believe) him, not those who need any convincing at all. This is Ben's entire career. He knows how to say something just plausible (and non-falsifiable) enough so that people who already trust his word can rest easy believing he didn't do anything wrong.
Unpopular opinion: I can't even be mad at Ben Collins for paying Keffals. Hear me out.
Everyone here knows that journalists 9 out of 10 times are unscrupulous, lazy, unimaginative retards who's opinions are socially expedient. The act of Ben paying Keffals to use him as a sacrificial lamb for clicks and views, knowing damn well that sperg's a habitual liar and got more skeletons in his closet than Arlington Cemetery should tell you what matters.
They only want to cater to these weird troons, LGBTQ people and their "allies" to look like they're "fighting the good fight", but really they just want these brain dead agp smirking narcissists to click and clap like seals for ad revenue.
Tl;Dr: The Press are 90% scum. For every 1 "good" journo, there's 10 more that are just absolute soulless shills that cater to bugmen, retards and midwit idiots for social media clout and a cushy paycheck.
I like to compare these journalists to Elliot Carver, one of the best (and most underrated) Bond villains. Obviously, they are a very watered down version of Carver. But the malice and the desire to create chaos just to advance in their carreers that drives them is still there.At least during Gamergate there was a belief and real hope that journalists and their readers still actually cared about ethics in any kind of journalism. Social media has provably killed all that pretense. Journalists no longer have to go to school to learn how to be a good journalist, they just need to show that they get clicks which generates revenue. If they violate any journalist ethics, they can claim they never learned those because they didn't go to school. Even if they did know, it's not actually a crime, it's just something all journalists were supposed to do, but since they all stopped doing them and readership didn't revolt, it's tacitly okay to just say "fuck it" and do whatever it takes to sculpt a story out of horseshit. We will look back on the failures of journalism schools and classes as we do with the scaling back of McDonald's Hamburger University, when people had some goddamn standards.
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