Why News Sites Propagate Angry Feminism
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🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Many people feel like activists have infiltrated the news media, and that many of these organizations |
| 0:05.6 | are pushing a feminist progressive agenda. And while it may be true that there are activists in |
| 0:11.3 | media, and they do often push a feminist progressive or left-wing agenda, there are different |
| 0:17.6 | reasons for it. I'll admit, absolutely, activists journalists exist, and they will smear people |
| 0:22.8 | for ideological reasons. They will lie for ideological reasons. But let me tell you a story about |
| 0:28.5 | marketing. A few years ago, I was talking to a marketing consultant, and I asked them why was it |
| 0:34.3 | so many of these companies, these new digital media companies, are feminist and progressive? |
| 0:39.4 | And he said there's a few simple reasons. For one, women share more than men. That's a fact, |
| 0:44.5 | it's true. And the reason people share, for the most part, is if something makes them feel, |
| 0:51.2 | and not only that, anger is the most likely to get someone to share content. That means making |
| 0:58.7 | women angry is your best path to generating revenue. And it would seem that a lot of this data |
| 1:04.9 | might actually be true. So let's look at the data. Does it actually show that women are more |
| 1:10.7 | likely to share content, that angry women are more likely to share content? And that's the case, |
| 1:15.6 | is this why so many news organizations are progressive feminists? |
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| 1:37.1 | continue doing this work. A couple days ago, I did a story on this article from Buzzfeed. It says |
| 1:43.7 | the headline reads, The story is pretty defensive of women who have been proven to have filed false |
| 1:54.8 | rape claims. In one instance, phone records proved a man could not have committed these attacks. |
| 2:00.0 | The woman is said to have hurt herself. And I had to wonder, why is Buzzfeed defending convicted |
| 2:05.6 | criminals? And I started thinking that maybe it's because the goal is to paint women as victims, |
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