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<blockquote data-quote="Immortal Sun" data-source="post: 7770669"><p>I just want to add that, as someone who generally dislikes Maher, he wasn't <em>this</em> bad about a decade ago. Yes he was still a pompous, self-entitled jerk but there was at least some effort to have discussion on his show. There was at least some attempt at real humor. I even attended a couple of them back in 2006. </p><p></p><p>But this is hardly limited to Maher, without naming names or getting too political, the overall face of media has changed in the last 20 or 30 years from social commentary (fair, but honest) to critical commentary (honest, but brutal) to essentially trolling (brutal and dishonest). Noone ever really minded when someone made harsh but <em>honest</em> critique of others, it's a hard pill to swallow and sure some people can't swallow it but generally speaking most people understood that sometimes you have to hear the hard truths and you can't dance around that.</p><p></p><p>But at some point consumers generally found themselves more interested in the shocking, the scathing and the cruel rather than the fair or the honest or the accurate and that's pretty much the definition of trolling: cruelty for the purpose of shocking and hurting others in order to get attention.</p><p></p><p>The Greater Internet *badword* Theory has expanded to much of modern media.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Immortal Sun, post: 7770669"] I just want to add that, as someone who generally dislikes Maher, he wasn't [I]this[/I] bad about a decade ago. Yes he was still a pompous, self-entitled jerk but there was at least some effort to have discussion on his show. There was at least some attempt at real humor. I even attended a couple of them back in 2006. But this is hardly limited to Maher, without naming names or getting too political, the overall face of media has changed in the last 20 or 30 years from social commentary (fair, but honest) to critical commentary (honest, but brutal) to essentially trolling (brutal and dishonest). Noone ever really minded when someone made harsh but [I]honest[/I] critique of others, it's a hard pill to swallow and sure some people can't swallow it but generally speaking most people understood that sometimes you have to hear the hard truths and you can't dance around that. But at some point consumers generally found themselves more interested in the shocking, the scathing and the cruel rather than the fair or the honest or the accurate and that's pretty much the definition of trolling: cruelty for the purpose of shocking and hurting others in order to get attention. The Greater Internet *badword* Theory has expanded to much of modern media. [/QUOTE]
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