'Journalist' Stephen Maher: life comes at you fast.
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To become a journalist, you have to have the kind of personality that makes me not want to hear a single fucking word that leaves your mouth.
They all have god complexes, they are full of themselves, have these retarded ideas, are pompous cunts, etc. But that's needed to get ahead in a business like media. So by the time they reach their goal, it's like... why are you fucking alive?
I read the book of this dude. He is white (or something, Shekelsteinberg) and became the first white journalist writing in Japanese for a proper actual Japanese newspaper.
Some parts of the book were really interesting. The part about the process of becoming a journo in Japan, his struggles with misunderstanding the culture (like he went to an important event wearing a black suit and everyone assumed he was going to a funeral, because there you wear dark blue for work lol).
But then it all spiralled into the dickbag having two children he barely even knew because he developed this god complex and wanted to save totes unsuspecting poor white women who went to Japan to "work" and had nooooo idea that involved selling pussy for the yakuza. He was so proud of himself for being a hero too!
They all just become shitty ass people.
They all think they’re Clark Kent/Superman trying to save the world.
Pure narcissism seems to be the hiring criteria for journalists.
They think it's their opinion that people want to read instead of the underlying facts they have to sift for. That or their paymasters tell them to write it. Either way they are either whores for attention, money, or both.
Spot on.
There's never been 'free press.' They've always been the very best whores that money can buy!
“Telling the truth” is right out.
Socmedia is whole another issue, specifically because it's social. It gives the consumer this idea that the content creator is their personal friend, even when it's content made by a big ass company. All the big Youtubers and online personalities have big companies managing them, but it's still sold to you as your friend telling you about shit.
This goes for most of them, regardless if it's news, beauty, cooking, tech, anything. I'm specifically into books a lot, so I occasionally take a look at "booktube". So totes average young women just UWU talking about books... except they all have affiliate links, get thousands of dollars of books magically on a college student budget, etc. It's all fucking bullshit.
That's actually a really important point I'd not considered before- the framing/delivery of tweets from <corporation> feels like it's coming from an individual. While technically true, it has no relationship to you other than how much money and brand loyalty it can squeeze out of you; buy our shit because we have the good opinions.
Ugh. Continuing the tradition of western liberals moving to Japan and trying to subvert their culture. At least this time it sounds like he was wholly ineffective.
Honestly I'd rather hang out with yakuza criminals than democrat socialists and globalists.
Leftists*
By the end of the day journalist is ultimately a guy who has to talk about other people's lives and achievements.
Deep down they know they're just messenger boys.
I think deep down he just enjoyed being "forced to stay out drinking" late at night with police to "build relationships for better information" much more than actually being with his kids.
The way he wrote made it super clear he was in love with his own voice.
It was all very funny, because there was this higher ranking... I think detective or someone he became friends with. This older dude. He really respected that man. But that dude still had time to be with his child. He developed cancer and died, but he was there for his family still, while our journo just couldn't be arsed.
This is your typical small-brain narcissist. Any values but his own are evil and bad. Not able to see any other point of view but their own self-interested point of view. Certainly living alongside others that do not share his values are out of the question in his mind. They must submit or be destroyed.
We can't live with these people. We have to separate.
Who's this white nationalist he talks about?
You have to ask the proper question, if there is a white nationalist in the room with him.
Is racism in the room with us now?
"THEY'RE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! THEY'RE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!"
it was a terrible jig!
dancing is raycist now, bigots