While it's definitely nice that alternative media sites like the Malaysian Insider provide a platform for citizen journalists to voice their views and opinions on the current state of affairs, one just has to question whether having so many people talking at the same time essentially drowns each other out and dilutes any meaningful discussion.
I don't think the average reader has the necessary attention span to sift through all these 'opinions' to 'help' them think about any particular issue more deeply. Most of these 'opinions' are poorly researched, and lack any real purpose other than to serve as a means of public intellectual masturbation for the authors. I especially dislike it that the majority of these authors like to apply 'a sense of humour' to just about anything they write, just to show off their superior intellectual capacity to laugh at even the most serious of topics. Frankly, it makes you want to bludgeon these motherfuckers and ask them to stop abusing alternative media.
Ranting about the same issue ten thousand times by an ever-growing group of attention-seeking media whores won't really serve to 'educate' the public. Only serves to show that we are in seriously deep shit on every level of society because it seems like we only care about own petty little individual egos, and not much else.
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