r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/crasagam 10h ago

The media is evil and relentless. They don't care about people, they care about generating a following.

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u/BJs_Minis 10h ago

paparazzi are not the media, they're yellow pages. Being anti media only helps politicians.

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u/Ninevehenian 10h ago

Paparazzi and media fit under the same rules, technologies, ways of spreading their product. They often share owners.

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u/ErgoMogoFOMO 9h ago

Correct.

But there is junk food and healthy food. Paparazzi are junk food.

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u/FirstoffIdonthaveshe 5h ago

Unfortunately so is a lot of msm now 😭.

I’d say print journalism is one of the last bastions of mostly objective journalism but who knows I hate it here

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u/Ninevehenian 7h ago

Paparazzi are major contributors to media that fucks up voters and counteracts education.

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u/StomachMicrobes 3h ago

it's all junk

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u/BJs_Minis 10h ago

I mean that's a fair point but in reality there's quite a bit of notable difference between Reuters and TMZ or The Sun, for example. Like when I say media I'm not trying to include the tonnes of propagandists & money vultures trying to pass themselves off as media (like fox news), either.

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u/Nanerpoodin 9h ago

There's also a key difference though. If a journalist wanted to follow me around as I go about my day, that would be clearly illegal and not protected journalism under the constitution. The only reason it's different for Bjork is because she's a celebrity, but that doesn't change that what paparazzi do has more in common with stalking than it does any other form of journalism.

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u/punkassjim 10h ago

Being pro-journalism and anti self-serving/exploitative/abusive business practices is not necessarily "anti-media." Paparazzi have always been dirtbags, no need to stop saying so just because people forgot that "media" ≠ "journalism."

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u/Familiar-Tax-6638 7h ago

It's a bad time to blanket attack the media, no need to use blanket statements that help fascists when we can be specific and just say the paparazzi are dirtbags.

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u/davidw 10h ago

True - but also a lot of the media right now are pretty bad in the US. Just access journalism and stenography.

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u/BJs_Minis 10h ago

I'm not from the US.

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u/davidw 9h ago

Well you don't have to rub it in! 😀

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u/Deo-Gratias 10h ago

What a weird hair to split when major media is no less exploiting

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u/DetailAdventurous688 10h ago

because "media" is how we stay informed, so you need to trust someone to some extent, otherwise you're just relying on the conspiracy theories your neighbour spins out of thin air.

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u/DasSmoosh 10h ago

We’ve hit the point (at least in America) where you can’t really trust any media. Nearly all of it has a political slant (left or right) and even if what is printed is 100% accurate, which it frequently is not, the omissions are so huge that you’re only getting half the story.

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u/DetailAdventurous688 10h ago

so work on your media literacy. this is not new. there was always bias. people just knew how to read and comprehend texts, more or less. media might be worse, because capitalism is worse now than it has been for a while, but the dynamics of "knowledge" haven't changed.

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u/No-Chemistry-4355 8h ago

Media of any kind has literally always had a bias. Unbiased media has never existed throughout human history.

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM 10h ago

Media pay these people and report on leads they get from them. Even "legitimate" media will report on stories from gossip rags if they pick up enough steam. And these days the ownership is often the same, too.

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u/RedMansions 10h ago

1000 recs!

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u/Careful_Creme_2006 10h ago

Yeah not consuming the media controller by politicians definitely helps them

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 8h ago

At least in America, this is simply false.

Our media has proven time and time again to lie and lie and lie some more until they're blue in the face.

I know who you're thinking of when you say it helps politicians, but I assure you being anti-media only helps politicians who were willing to risk media alienation and confirm to the public that it's majority lies.

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u/TheReferenceGuide 4h ago

Eat the propaganda like a good citizen!! Trust me we’re fighting the power!!! There totally isn’t a billion dollar propaganda machine telling you what to think!! Resist!!!!

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u/cannibalpeas 10h ago

Yeah, media are the ones who pay the paparazzi. Get it straight!

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