“Now glued to our flat-screen televisions and smart phones, we experience our world as less a sober discussion of our shared values and illuminating experiences and more a gladiatorial contest of screeching individuals and outlandish insults curated by media puppeteers chasing ratings and paychecks. Tabloid culture sets the norms of our lives and our nation.”
(From my blog archive)
I was living in Buffalo, NY when O.J. Simpson took his famous “White Bronco Ride” in 1994. In a city for which O.J. was both a sports legend
Why won’t anyone address the fact that this situation is ostensibly a virtual human rights violation committed against Armie Hammer by the media and everyone else who chose to accuse, convict, and punish him, with real world consequences, for crimes he never even committed, in the virtual town square, and without formal charges, outside of the appropriate legal channels?
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental huma
It was a virtual trial played out on social media like a bad joke, for titillation and entertainment value, without any regard for the serious, real-world, life-or-death consequences for the real victim of this sordid situation.
Even if Armie Hammer is a rich and famous celebrity with every perceived privilege under the sun, he’s still entitled to the same basic human and civil rights as every other person on the planet.
Perhaps this ugly situation could start a necessary dialogue about the role that content creators and consumers of media and social media play in potential human rights violations, when they’re allowed to publish and spread misandrist lies without proof or accountability, and often just for the attention or entertainment value, without regard for the human being whose life they’re actively destroying.
Kashmir separatists have a new weapon called ‘Rumour mongering’ Kashmir has been on the boil with several incidents of violence being reported in the past two weeks.
"It was a mistake. People were asking me questions at the time and I responded, but nobody knows better than I the pain that can be caused by ever discussing rumors in private conversation."
- Hillary Clinton apologizing for passing on unsubstantiated innuendo about alleged extramarital affairs of George H.W. Bush that appeared in an interview published in the May 1992 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
Gail Sheehy, who interviewed Hillary Clinton for the article, said that she had spoken to Mrs. Clinton shortly before the interview was published, and said that Mrs. Clinton "didn't back away from it."
“Candidate's Wife; Hillary Clinton: Speaking About Rumors”
Article Link: New York Times
by Deborah Sontag
April 5, 1992
