this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
181 points (99.5% liked)

World News

38578 readers
1909 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I understand.

Migrants drowning isn't entertainment unless you're a sociopath.

Millionaires and Billionaires slowly suffocating in a little tube at the bottom of the ocean because they wanted to spend their money on something pointlessly dangerous just for bragging rights?

Make some popcorn.

News as news doesn't sell advertising dollars. If all you want is information about what's happening in the world, we used to get that in 1 or 2 hours a night. Back then they'd only need to go back to the story if there was new information.

Now there are organizations dedicated to spewing "news" 24x7. That's not news, that's entertainment. Once it becomes entertainment, it's not about the information, it's just about keeping the focus on what keeps eyeballs glued to the screen. Right now, that's dying rich people.

Hell, I doubt there is ever a time when the majority of people on earth don't want to watch rich people suffer and die.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is like Steve Bannon level of edgelord opinion

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Steve should have been in that sub along with our other "elites"

[–] Willer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh awesome rich people suffocating?! Sum aint right with your take. I think its mainly because fucking everyone knows titanic and recognize the deja vu of this incident