A detailed account of Monkeetime's virtual experience on Mt. Kinabalu in June 2015.
I expressed my thoughts about the politicians stoking hatred by blaming an earthquake on some nudists. This stirred up a massive and negative reaction from Malaysians. Thousands of comments, hundreds of thousands of views later, this became a huge part of the story.
Then, in a lovely fusion of mass hysteria and sensation-seeking media, The Daily Mail, Telegraph, Global, Mirror, New York Times, and a variety of other, apparently unreliable news media turned to Facebook to gather their info. The angry Facebook mob fed anything, and the media gobbled up everything!
You've got your flowcharts reversed there, journalist boys and girls. You are supposed to provide the news, and people are supposed to post it on Facebook... Not read incoherent reports on Facebook and face news using that info.
#noresearch
#journalismisdead
#assquakeMalaysia
