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Tesla terrorist unmasked as lipstick-wearing arsonist who left key clues at crime scenes
(www.dailymail.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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I looked up "yellow journalism". It seems to describe sensational articles, which this is, but that's very broad. I was wondering more about the exact placement of those two words to achieve that sensational effect.
What makes it biased isn't the truthfulness of the literal words, but what it communicates to the reader. There are ways to say that the perpetrator was wearing lipstick such that the reader understand either "transsexuals and crossdressers are violent people" or "this person happens to dress funny and their behaviour has no bearing on anyone else who does the same." Based on the reactions in the article's comment section, this is clearly an instance of the former.
So to summarize, it's not a problem that looks are being highlighted. The problem is that it's done in a way that puts a target on innocent people.
No, the problem is that some fuckwit decided to set out to destroy other people's property for a fun political stunt. And he happens to wear lipstick while looking like a homeless hairy dude. He purposely makes himself stand out by how he dresses and acts.
No one would be writing about his lipstick if he didn't commit a fucking crime.
Why don't you just be upset at him for giving “transsexuals and crossdressers" a bad image, rather than the people who write articles about him.
He's a fucking lowlife criminal dipshit. He deserves his appearance being made fun of. No one is making fun of the LGBQT community because of him. You are projecting. They are making fun of him directly. Because he's an idiot.
Be mad at him for making your cause look bad. Why aren't you pissed at him?
I'm talking about the problem with the article, not problems with society or the world or anything else. No one's stopping you from being upset at multiple problems at once. Unfortunately, I don't have the means of reaching the arsonist nor the author of the article to make my complaints, nor the means to experience anger (alexithymia), but I can communicate with the people of Lemmy and encourage people to actually think about what they read. It's also just a fun exercise to see how biased articles are written in the first place.
Not making fun of. Promoting fear, and the idea that they are all dangerous. Rereading the comments, it's actually more an attack on anyone who supports the LGBTQ community than on LGBTQs. I'll quote some of them below for you.
I picked out the ones that are most explicit, but just about every comment is saying the same thing.
Again, no one is doing that. Those people would have said the exact same things even without the current title of the article. The title of the article didn't cause any of them to think differently.