Saturday, 24 September 2016

Weekly news September 19th

Weekly news for week starting 19th of September by Adam Picton.

Now my first weekly news, isn’t really a news story. There are many news stories about it, but I’d prefer to just go the source of it all.
This video stirred up a lot of controversy when it first hit light sometime around last year. And while I know it’s satire, I wished it was real. It’d be magical to have people this stupid on earth. The woman in the video’s stage name is Cassidy Boon, and she is a journalist. She writes most of her articles as the character Cassidy Boon and stirs up controversy for attention. This is the most famous occurrence of this but it is certainly not the only one. After some further research on her, I also found out she’s written about Vegemite being racist, men can’t be raped and how Harley Quinn is too sexy in Suicide Squad. But back to the topic at hand.

To summarize, the story is just Cassidy Boon saying she nearly drowned and a man saved her, pulled her out of the water and resuscitated her. But she is now trying to sue him for rape. Obviously this is not real because Cassidy Boon is a character but I imagine that somewhere, there must be somebody who would think this way. Somebody must be crazy enough to honestly believe #saverape is a serious thing. Just watch the video for context. This got me thinking about other controversial people who do it for attention. Katie Hopkins is very much the same thing but on a larger scale and who knows if her opinions are really hers or not. I personally don’t mind it and while I think Katie Hopkins is a complete and utter (removed in post because I remembered this was homework), I also think people take most controversial writers too seriously. And some people even enjoy reading stuff like this. It’s like a great movie villain that you really hate, but you love to hate them. In conclusion, if people really want this kind of stuff to stop, then all they really need to do is not feed it, but they do because the people love drama and controversy and that’s never going to change.

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