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Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I some times think about it and how shitty people are

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 141 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Remember that

Unless your a professional communicator, talking to media is always dangerous. They can totally change what you say using "editing", and loaded question can quickly trap you. There is a reason why there is so many job in communication and media assistant, you don't want to let people talk unsupervised
Honestly, if only a sub reddit keeps a political movement alive, it isn't a political movement

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To expand on the point about editing for anyone who assumes that is only means taking things out of context, editing can also be rearranging the order of communication to change the meaning as well as introducing context prior to the interaction that changes the meaning.

Fox News is known for doing all of that.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The ol Frankenbite/frankenedit

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Unless you're* a professional communicator, talking to media is always dangerous. They can totally change what you say using "editing", and loaded question can quickly trap you.

This is probably the real reason why politicians never actually say "yes" or "no"! Haha

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

"After that, I made it a rule, I only do e-mail responses to print interviews; because these people love to put a twist in your words, to infer that you said somethin fuckin absurd--" -- Mike Shinoda, "Get Me Gone"