PerseusStoned
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Hey guys, just a story with a question I was wondering if anyone else had some information to contribute.
You probably noticed lwien's ice cream thread link, well I had followed it to its original news source and noticed a guy named TijJit who commented:
Now, the thing is I see comments like this all the time on news stories involving marijuana. CNN runs articles every week or two with some angle on marijuana; sometime negative (criminals caught doing something wrong who were high), sometime positive (medical marijuana saves lives), sometime just mentioning it (gangs in Mexico funded by American marijuana users). On these articles there always these weird near-fanatical and unfounded comments by profiles like TijJit. The thing that really makes them stick out is that they are almost always newly created accounts, just to post a comment on the story, and never interact with the site again. Why is this?
Curious, I googled TijJit's name and came up with a few hits. Here:
The KSBW site where he created his profile just to post a comment on the ice cream story.
Change.org, where he comments on a story about tipping in restaurants saying waiters/waitressing is lucrative.
Finally baycitizen, a news site where he contends that pot kills people and that "Prop 19" is, well...
I'm just trying to figure out why something like this would happen. We know he's following the news and feels he needs to voice opposition on these stories. It might just be a journalist trying to inflate comments on their stories by leaving obviously argumentative comments on articles where mostly "pro-pot" people will go, but this has been a trend I've noticed in online news sources across the country.
Call it a hunch, but I'm reminded of Jurgis's brief stint in politics from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". He is hired by the corporations to vouch for one political side over the other. He has no real interest in the actual politics, just knows what buttons to push to do his job and get his official elected so that the corporations can prosper.
Anyone have any idea whats going on with politics and the media anymore? Is everything just presented for show, with no real attempt at authenticity?
You probably noticed lwien's ice cream thread link, well I had followed it to its original news source and noticed a guy named TijJit who commented:
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is completely powerless. Voodoo medicine, quack doctors, quack patients with medical marijuana programs. Marijuana smoke has not been approved by FDA for treatment of any medical condition. Marijuana is still illegal at the Federal level for any use. What in the world is happening to the USA? Total medical anarchy!
Now, the thing is I see comments like this all the time on news stories involving marijuana. CNN runs articles every week or two with some angle on marijuana; sometime negative (criminals caught doing something wrong who were high), sometime positive (medical marijuana saves lives), sometime just mentioning it (gangs in Mexico funded by American marijuana users). On these articles there always these weird near-fanatical and unfounded comments by profiles like TijJit. The thing that really makes them stick out is that they are almost always newly created accounts, just to post a comment on the story, and never interact with the site again. Why is this?
Curious, I googled TijJit's name and came up with a few hits. Here:
The KSBW site where he created his profile just to post a comment on the ice cream story.
Change.org, where he comments on a story about tipping in restaurants saying waiters/waitressing is lucrative.
Finally baycitizen, a news site where he contends that pot kills people and that "Prop 19" is, well...
If you read it carefully, all it is proposing is "I have a pot habit. Legalize it so I have the freedom to support my pot habit. Oh, by the way, this proposition will result in this also, if pot is legalized."
I'm just trying to figure out why something like this would happen. We know he's following the news and feels he needs to voice opposition on these stories. It might just be a journalist trying to inflate comments on their stories by leaving obviously argumentative comments on articles where mostly "pro-pot" people will go, but this has been a trend I've noticed in online news sources across the country.
Call it a hunch, but I'm reminded of Jurgis's brief stint in politics from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". He is hired by the corporations to vouch for one political side over the other. He has no real interest in the actual politics, just knows what buttons to push to do his job and get his official elected so that the corporations can prosper.
Anyone have any idea whats going on with politics and the media anymore? Is everything just presented for show, with no real attempt at authenticity?