This is scary news, for sure. Also scary, how many cheap ass blogs and parasite websites stole the story.
Take that screen grab, times a hundred, or two hundred or more.
We are now relying on a few dying newspapers and ONE OR TWO dying news syndicates for ALL our news. That's not a happy thought, is it?
What happens when that Philly paper has to let a few more writers go? There won't be a bright reporter showing how easy it is to get a weapon. We'll just have editorialists hinting that it's possible. Or we'll have another story of "Maniac got a gun in 7 minutes," ripped off the Associated Press wire and duplicated by a thousand assholes on blogs and dopey "decider-gawker" websites that people choose over their local newspaper site.
The parasites who copy the facts and re-write a little bit here and there, are happy with the nickels and dimes The Great God Google hands them for "monetization." For them, this is booty. It's found money. They have their day jobs sweeping the sidewalks or stacking cans in the grocery store. They can proudly insist that their REAL job is "WRITER."
It's like Shauna Cuntwell and the rest saying, "I'M A SINGER," even if they only make a few pennies at it.
More and more, the TV news stations and the news websites rely on scabs who just want the glory of having their name flashed on the screen. Real cameramen get laid off. Real writers get laid off. More and more, sources that should be breaking the news rely on swiping it. Instead of digging for stories they re-publish tweets and re-write shit they Googled, with maybe a vague credit: "A Philadelphia news reporter bought a weapon..."
Too often the source is Facebook or some shit found on a blog.
"According to a blogger..."
An instant fifty or more sites always have the same news at the same time, cannibalizing the original source.
What happened to REALITY? What happened to JOURNALISM?
It's been shot to pieces like those homos in Orlando.
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