{"id":20880,"date":"2016-06-04T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20880"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:34:15","slug":"the-media-divides-us-with-gorillas-to-enable-the-crimes-of-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20880","title":{"rendered":"The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0United States \u2014<\/i>\u00a0By now, we\u2019ve all witnessed selective outrage in real time \u2014 a misdeed, tragedy, or other infuriating item blows up national headlines and almost immediately receives backlash in the vein of, \u2018well, why isn\u2019t anyone irate about ___ ?\u2019 It\u2019s as if society has developed not only an odd hypocritical corner on the market of concern, but a notable inability to impassion itself with more than one issue at once.<\/p>\n

Dichotomized moral outrage receives an altogether greedy leg up from corporate media. After all, networks understand all too acutely how tragedy drives opportunity \u2014 and what better way to cash in on casualty than by capitalizing on ethical wedges people invariably manufacture?<\/p>\n

Cleaving division, in fact, comprises the bulk of propaganda. Intense bickering and debate saturate social media, both obfuscating other potentially significant happenings and setting the foundation for further division in the future. If personally invested in passionate disagreement over one issue, people\u2019s resentments linger \u2014 prejudicing friends, colleagues, and associates against one another when an equally divisive topic or incident takes place in the future.<\/div>\n

Now that we\u2019re about halfway through 2016, having seen this polarity replayed innumerable times, one conclusion can be surmised with a degree of certainty \u2014 people simply favor certain things over others. And the examples comprise a list both telling and distressing in scope.<\/p>\n

1. Harambe<\/b>, an endangered western lowland gorilla living in a confined space at the Cincinnati Zoo, died after staff decided extreme measures were necessary to save a hapless four-year-old boy \u2014 who inexplicably managed to escape his mother\u2019s notice and slip into the animal\u2019s habitat. When zoo director Thane Maynard faced the media to\u00a0justify<\/a>\u00a0the shooting of Harambe, social media had already amplified the controversy to a feverish pitch.<\/p>\n

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The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government\u00a0 (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0United States \u2014\u00a0By now, we\u2019ve all witnessed selective outrage in real time \u2014 a misdeed, tragedy, or other infuriating item blows up national headlines and almost immediately receives backlash in the vein of, \u2018well, why isn\u2019t anyone irate about ___ ?\u2019 It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8350,11494,2346,3670,379,512,827,834],"class_list":["post-20880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anti-media","tag-claire-bernish","tag-crime","tag-criminal-behaviour","tag-government","tag-media","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20881,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions\/20881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}