From righteous fury to faux indignation, everything we got mad about in 2014—

[Disir]

Following the news in 2014 is a bit like flying a kite in flat country during tornado season. Every so often, a whirlwind of outrage touches down, sowing destruction and chaos before disappearing into the sky.

These conditions are hardly new. Over the past decade or so, outrage has become the default mode for politicians, pundits, critics and, with the rise of social media, the rest of us. When something outrageous happens—when a posh London block installs anti-homeless spikes, or when Khloé Kardashian wears a Native American headdress, or, for that matter, when we read the horrifying details in the Senate’s torture report—it’s easy to anticipate the cycle that follows: anger, sarcasm, recrimination, piling on; defenses and counterattacks; anger at the anger, disdain for the outraged; sometimes, an apology … and on to the next. Twitter and Facebook make it easier than ever to participate from home. And the same cycle occurs regardless of the gravity of the offense, which can make each outrage feel forgettable, replaceable. The bottomlessness of our rage has a numbing effect.

The year of outrage 2014 Everything you were angry about on social media this year.

Slate has a lengthy analysis of outrage in the media. Lengthy.

At times it is a bit too trite and carries an oh-well-what-are-you-going-to-do attitude.

But it does highlight just how much people get sucked into this little cycle.

 

[whitehall]

Funny how the issue of "outrage in the media" never happened in the entire 20th century. The media has been an arm of the democrat party for more than a hundred years. It's only the emergence of talk radio and a fair and balanced Fox news and the internet that created any sort of political balance and democrats have never stopped whining about it.

 

[Disir]

Funny how the issue of "outrage in the media" never happened in the entire 20th century. The media has been an arm of the democrat party for more than a hundred years. It's only the emergence of talk radio and a fair and balanced Fox news and the internet that created any sort of political balance and democrats have never stopped whining about it.

Sure it did. Did you read the article?

 

[Disir]

I'll take that as a no.

 

[jwoodie]

Why don't you explain why you posted this "article" and what point you were trying to make?

 

[Disir]

Why don't you explain why you posted this "article" and what point you were trying to make?

You understand just fine. Cycle of faux rage from the right and the left and the changes that have occurred over the last decade.