'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised by Activists

Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by dvt on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:58AM (#19126812)

Outrage culture at its finest. NPR cites a few tweets. Let's analyze: [1] has 13 likes; [2] has 8. No one cares about emojis this much. Real activists (not Twitter keyboard warriors) don't care about emojis, they care about, you know, actual social progress. It took this group like 2 years to get 54,600 signatures when joke petitions like [3] are in the same ballpark. I mean, give me a break.

But articles like this are built from the ground up to (a) get clicks and (b) get people fired up in the comments section to, you guessed it, get more clicks. Journalism, if you can even call it that anymore, is in a sorry state right now. And instead of proving Trump's inane "fake news" diatribes wrong, we have highly-respected news outlets essentially printing garbage like this.

[1] https://twitter.com/PlanUK/status/869632011316727808?ref_src...

[2] https://twitter.com/Cearaa/status/1093430548171841541?ref_sr...

[3] https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/petition/secu...

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:01AM (#19127129)

I'm not sure what people object to in your post, but it's important to call news outlets out when they use some random tweet that 50 people have seen as a "representative" view. If you use any tweets you can pretend almost anything is a common opinion.

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by mulmen on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:16AM (#19126854)

The existence of this story and any flaws that may or may not exist in it do not represent the state of journalism as a whole.

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by dvt on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:53AM (#19126952)

Actually they do; this kind of click-bait yellow journalism has become the norm, not the exception. From Breitbart to Huffington Post, they all do it.

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by mulmen on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:12PM (#19137822)

Neither Beritbart nor Huffington post are particularly reputable journalistic outlets, they're both at the extremes of the political spectrum. My point is that you can't condemn the entire discipline of journalism based on a single story.

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by funkythings on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:08AM (#19127003)

There are thousands of examples with similar style across the "mainstream" media. At what point can we judge the state of journalism as a whole?

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