[rflec028]

I don't think it was hard to criticize; it always seemed to be a little tongue in cheek and lighthearted.

Have you read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" and discussed the ideas inside with others? While he is right about in general about editorial bias, he ultimately posits that media that shares his own political agenda is good and media that does not is bad.

Media-induced hypersensitivity to fear porn is certainly an issue, and the good people of this board like to think they are invulnerable to it. Ha.

[vannevar]

Yeah, I recall it being pretty widely mocked here in the US and as far as I know, any actual usage of the term by restaurants was short-lived. It was more a media phenomenon than a real one, like all the supposed teenage "trends" that periodically make the rounds.

[mytailorisrich]

It was neither tongue-in-cheek nor light-hearted... Rather an offensive, and slightly racist, reaction to a country making its own decisions.

[rflec028]

Explain your hyperbole or go back to Reddit.