Don’t Smash Send: Three Pleas for a Better Media World

There are some social media and news media trends that need to be not only pointed out, but pointed at while mercilessly mocked.

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Admittedly, I am far more online than the average person probably is, and probably more so than is healthy. Unavoidable, to do writing and media in the modern world, at least the way I do. Any accusation that my own perception might be a bit skewed accordingly could well have some merit to it.

Still, there are some social media and news media trends in the Year of Our Lord 2025 that need to be not only pointed out, but pointed at while mercilessly mocked. The bad trends are legion, but for the sake of brevity let us review but three of them.

• Nothing good ever happens when you go monologuing into the front facing camera of your cell phone when alone in a vehicle. Like the old saying of being in a bar after midnight. Yes, that particular old saying is generalized hyperbole but there is much truth to it. Just because something catastrophically bad does not happen 99 times out of 100, the odds of that one catastrophic thing happening skyrockets because of the situation you yourself have created. Whatever that smoking hot take that just cannot wait until you get to somewhere else, it definitely…