Positivity/neutrality don’t get engagement

by coffeewalnut08

27 comments
  1. Nobody said that we need to bow down to Starmer each morning and sing an anthem for him.

    But if you *constantly* find yourself outraged by what you’re reading about politics or the Government, consider the possibility that someone’s manufacturing and milking your outrage on purpose.

  2. It’s true, but it’s not helped by the fact labours doing basically fuck all positive for anyone except leeches

  3. This is not an exclusively a right wing thing, bad press generates clicks

  4. I don’t need some rent-a-gob from GB News or The Sun to get me to dislike Starmer. And by the way, he IS right wing.

    Bring on Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  5. It’s not right/left wing media. The opposition will always scrutinise and criticise heavily the party in power, its normal and part of democracy.

  6. It doesn’t seem like anyone in left wing media likes him though either. Like he could find a cure for cancer and everyone would still find a reason to hate him.

  7. “The … media prefers to avoid anything positive this … government is doing. Because positivity threatens their rage-driven profit model.”

    I fixed it for you! Everyone hates everyone, stay safe out there.

  8. Far too many people consume news through sensationalist commentary rather than listening to politicians directly. Watching PMQs or a short ministerial speech takes minutes. Yet, many outsource their worldview to extreme political pundits—who are often no more qualified to form an opinion than anyone else.

    If you want to know what the government is actually saying and doing, don’t just hear about it through the lens of outrage. Listen to them yourself. Think for yourself.

    That said, this Labour government has hardly been an exceptional communicator thus far.

  9. Do you know rates are going even lower by next month???

    THANKS TO TRUMP

  10. If anyone would like some good news perhaps give r/goodnewsuk a look

  11. Most of the media (left and right) tend to be awful for the most part; that said, Starmer and this current government are terrible

  12. But there is nothing positive the Labour government is doing? So what’s your point?

  13. To be fair left wing media does the exact same thing

  14. On Facebook, I follow science groups and vegatable growing groups

    They dont appear on my feed

    What appears on my feed is hardcore creationists and carnivore/anti-vegan/anti-climate change groups

    They purposefully piss you off because outrage gets more clicks

  15. Yeah this really isn’t party specific, the only leader who doesn’t seem to have a positive or negative media bias for me is Kemi. If you were making a political satire, Farage is a 1950’s small minded throwback, Starmer is a nerd with a weird voice, Ed Davey is an attention seeking dad trying to be cool, Polanski is a woke university student. But with Kemi I don’t know what you’d mock, in that sense she does well. She just seems fairly normal in comparison.

  16. They don’t help themselves by making it so easy. By replacing the neutral judge in the Palestine Action case with a known Zionist who always finds in the governments favour, even when it’s illegal. By saying they want to take all jewellery off asylum seekers, including wedding rings, and wanting to do away with juries and replace them with judges for anything under a 5 years sentence. Given how they are behaving over the Palestine Action case, and others, this last one should concern anyone. And of course, being forced to uphold an election promise by the Green Party.

    Sure, negative news gets the most clicks, but Labour still makes it too easy.

  17. Because every single interview, press release etc contains the same phrases, “the last government” “ 14 years of Tory rule” “ we have…..compared to the last government “ blah blah blah Yes the Tories were shit but Labour are stuck in opposition, it’s like listening to bunch of school kids arguing in the school yard. It’s continuous and it’s getting boring.

  18. All you see is labour attacking other parties rather than about their own

  19. Hard to swallow pill: The left still can’t meme 🤦🏻‍♂️

    Try making it a bit snappier instead of cramming a whole paragraph of moaning, unoriginal political propaganda into a ‘meme’ format ffs

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