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I’ve never taken a selfie. What does it feel like.
It feels awesome, satisfying, awkward, silly, childish…
+Ieuan Hunt Narcissistic
It feels like you just stroked your ego with the finest porcelain brush
+Daggernath That is unhygienic.
Cracked > Buzzfeed
That’s barely even a compliment.
+saltypork101 Cool story, bro.
+Alex Kahn Needs more goblins.
As bad as selfies are, at least the duckface seems to be less prevalent.
That’s a fair point.
Increasingly we care for news only if it advances our own ego, we want to inject ourselves into history…actually a rather incisive video this. Kudos Cracked team!
+Mukesh Kumar What an incisive comment, you repeated what the Cracked guy just said! Where’s Harold?
“Man is by nature a political beast.”
-Aristotle, 4rd Century BC.
You had to make all this about yourself, huh Mukesh.
Am i the only person left who reads newspapers? Oh wait, silly me, I’m British, let me correct that: Are *we* the only people who read newspapers?
+Conrad Von Spitfire Blimey bollocks fish and chips God save the queen insert other stereotype here.
+Philly Cheese That’s us alright, we are the land of walking stereotypes. Even though, ironically, we have two sets of stereotypes which are complete opposites, the stuck-up but polite, and hopelessly sophisticated ponce, and the cockney dropper of atomic f-bombs 17 times per sentence, just watch a a british crime film, and try to disagree. God i’ve been writing a for too long now. Sorry for wasting your time, I would offer compensation, but I can’t be arsed.
I’ve the impression that news doesn’t do the “heavy lifting” of check stories much.
So at the end of the day, the news are skewed by politics and false information. I believe more in a bunch of people repeating the same story in Internet than any big network trying to shove into my throat their political views.
Basically, it’s the same, except selfies are normally more humorous.
+Chris Vitullo +rightpa Bloody yanks. Start a discussion with them and it always boils down to Democrats vs. Republicans. Excuse me, gentlemen, my monocle and I will now exeunt to enjoy some Earl Grey before bed.
+Stan Plepis I don’t know about that. I mean, I think our conversation ended at least respectfully. This Chris guy though… I’m not so sure. 🙂
+rightpa This debate was terrible! You were mad about liberal bias, and then used conservative bias for the entire argument! Okay, you want proof Fox News has made things up? Here: http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-fabricated-obama-quote-about-romney-2012-4 http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/
+lightingbolt85 Exactly, which is why I declined to continue the debate.
Bullshit, most of the time these barely true stories only catch on because they’re advancing some agenda or because they make people angry which is the quickest way to get traction. With old media, if you knew a good source (usually not on TV) then you could get good news. On the internet, there’s so such thing, it’s all crap.
Those people taking selfies during major moments weren’t saying,”Look at what’s happening.” They were saying, “Look at what’s happening to me!” <-- THIS!
Right?! Fucking genius!!!
+Siddhi Desai Can we send this to everyone who has taken a selfie ever, please?
I’d say it’s more just so to bring up memories of them experiencing the event. Obviously, selfies aren’t for documenting events, they’re for documenting memories
that was the new york east village explosion. the new york post put their selfie on the cover and headline was” village idiots.” so everyone in NY saw them.
News does “heavy-lifting”… Since when??
Gone are those days, now MSM has a political agenda just like the citizen journalism.
+Chris Vitullo You’re half right. There has always been some bias, even in the golden age. Walter Cronkite himself interjected his emotions and opinions into his news stories. However, it is true that people actually cared more about how true something was. If a story was discredited, it and the guilty party were as well. Today there’s a bigger culture problem making news so unforgivably opinionated, and Sorent hinted at it when he said that we only share stories thatfurther our point. If this were a slightly different topic he could have continued, “not only that, but most people won’t “share” a story that discovered their previous story was false. It’s like we’re fighting a battle, but both sides have so little ammunition and so many people that everyone is just screaming out onomatopoeias at each other and brushing the one or two unlucky dead out of sight and mind. Even if someone confronts you with a criticism, you can find thousands of other stories, opinion, and false news to back up your.
A big one happened right at the end. “…exactly like fox news…” I know cracked is liberal but a better simile, by far, would have been MSNBC. (See: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/05/is-msnbc-the-place-for-opinion/ ). When the Pew Research finds that MSNBC is worse than Fox by a large gap, but people still use Fox as the scapegoat, you’re seeing how much more biased opinions mean to people than cold hard facts.
The “heavy lifting” Soren is referring to is required by law. News programs are not allowed to air or publish a story unless it is supplied by two reliable and independent sources. These programs, while protected by a whole host of rights, are also pretty well regulated and heavily accountable for what is said with their backing. Incorrect or overly biased facts drastically damage their reputations. If you check, “Fox News” is actually categorized as an entertainment program rather than a news program.
+Izz M There is no legal requirement to use two independent sources. That used to be Journalistic Ethics. Such a legal requirement would be blatantly Unconstitutional. It also untrue that Fox News is listed as Entertainment. The Network is Fox News and Entertainment. Everybody who publishes or broadcast is supposed to be liable but the absence of malice test has been misused to give cover to all kinds of misdeeds.
My mistake on the legality of the matter; however, as far as I know most news sources do go to great lengths to uphold the Journalistic Ethics. Malice aforethought is incredibly hard to prove, but straight up misinformation is libel and is totally a legal basis for lawsuits as has been seen in the past especially against Fox. They don’t always win, but they certainly keep news programs and Fox on their toes.
Try to stop having a thing just for Fox. You will find the so called reputable News Organizations be it broadcast or print are even more guilty of misleading stories or out right lying by omission. One reason is the very nature of the business. Stories have to grab your attention so they are over hyped. It is always a crisis, always dangerous, always needs your immediate attention. Another reason is the fiction of unbiased news. The closest you will ever see to unbiased news is if you just look at facts such who, what, when and where. If you include why then that leads to a bias. First the why has to be explained, what are the motivations? Why is this important? It is the reporters motivation and beliefs you are really hearing and seeing and that may not actually resemble in any way what really happened.
Everyone is all about Advocacy Journalism these days but what if they are advocating something that you are totally not for? What if you are for something but that something is not what you think it is? News organizations are not in the business to inform you, they are in the business to either re-enforce your beliefs or persuade you into new beliefs. That is the goal of advocacy journalism. The “Narrative” is the device used to impose a context on news stories even when it departs from reality. Narrative is like the plot and motive factors of a story but Narrative is decided in the Newsroom. It is how they sell the story and it is a very dangerous practice. Too many people take the news at face value instead of understanding the news is trying to manipulate you. This manipulation is not some devious plot by an evil master mind but an attempt to get you and keep you as a reader or viewer by making the stories seem more important and exciting than they are.
LET THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT OF HUMAN HISTORY BE ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEE
So very true.
And that is why I dont ever post selfies
It’s ok Sorren, modern liberal media can’t separate their viewpoints from the news either.
+pwrserge83 “They are nothing than a front for terrorists”– You’re basing this off what exactly? If it’s because it has Arabic origins, then you’ve proven nothing except that you are a bigot.
+idiotunderthetable They broadcast insurgent propaganda videos. That’s enough for me.
+pwrserge83 Evidence, please. Point me to one of these videos, because I can’t find them.
+Keeseman They got pulled down rather quickly when the State Department threw a hissy fit. This was back in 04-05.
+pwrserge83 Uh huh. Totally.
I don’t use facebook and don’t take selfies. Hooray, I am not part of medias death! I’m also crushingly lonely… worth it!
You’re an everyday hero, man. Stay strong!
I don’t use Facebook and I don’t take selfies.
+WeActOnImpulse Official But now you’re a sell out :-3
+Steven Boelke you’re a sellout because you have no avatar
I share stories encouraging people to care about feminism and rape culture, because I’m 21 and I’ve already been sexually assaulted by 3 separate men in my life time so far.
+Andrew Bowey And apparently, you are #fullredpill so you can’t use a keyboard.
+VampirateYuki “rape culture” I’m glad you were sexually assaulted.
+Nahben Haben I hope you get raped. Preferrably by 5 large men in prison nightly.
+Cynical Cthulhu Daym sounds like you missed your cup of male tears today.
Soren if you read this comment I just want you to know I hate you. XOX
One problem of the “everyman guerilla journalist” (copyright Paul Pavilonis) is that people insert their own narrative in the story and we(the viewer) have no idea of the context because the video starts wherever the “cameraman” sees fit. Thus we have Ferguson, Milwaukee, Chicago, etc.
3:55 that is a damn pellet gun
The sporadic jump cuts at the beginning made me laugh way too hard.
Can I agree AND hate you? No? I’ll just have to choose then….
i couldn’t finish the video. it wasn’t interesting. how does it relate?