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A MEASURED PROPOSAL:
Donald J. Trump is suing the BBC for reporting on him—they edited down an interview of his and made him feel bad.
It is NOT SAFE to report on Donald J. Trump.
So I suggest that for safety all news channels should replace every mention of him with the Hypnotoad:
@cstross I personally think Trump should be ignored by the media - and everyone else. His ego thrives on being top of the news and conversations.
#DonaldJTrump is *threatening to* sue, not yet suing, over editing of xyr speech at the start of the "Save America March", not over editing an interview.
And:
Damn it, Panorama! Didn't you bloody read my StackExchange answer?
I went through that very speech word by word to research it. *And* I had to endure a speech by Rudy Giuliani as well.
@cstross ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD 😵
A jackass would be a more appropriate choice.
@dtq1952 Too close to a donkey; ambiguous political connotations in a US context.
@cstross
Japanese news constantly sane-washes The Orange Turd and his turdette Secretaries. I wouldn't watch, but $WIFE has the TV news on often.
@cstross hypnoturd, more like.
@cstross
ALL. HAIL. HYPNO-TOAD. GLORY. TO. HYPNO-TOAD.
In all srsly, this would be such a god damn improvement to all media. You are a genius.
He's like voldemort, or an abomination fro H P Lovecraft, just stop saying his name. He's such a thirsty little bitch, ignoring him is righteous.
@cstross ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
In the interest of justice, it's possible to cleverly edit an interview, cherry-picking to support an agenda, take them out of context, and distort the truth in the minds of the public.
Let the whole unedited interview be made available, as matter of journalistic policy, so people can decide the truth for themselves, instead of having a third party curate it and manipulate people.
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Eric S. Raymond, Free Software proponent, and author of the Hacker's Dictionary wrote: "Under a million eyes, all bugs are shallow."
Let there be radical transparency and truth in media so people are not bamboozled.
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@cstross I for one hail the Hypnotoad!
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