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At the risk of missing a joke, the Minns in the article is a person, premier of New South Wales in Australia.
Congratulations on being the first to spot the part of the lame joke that was self-deprecating and ultimately, yes, the only reason I looked at the post body/content. You get a cookie.
As I've said already, I recognised NSW and didn't read the article as a result, before I commented.
The media's obsession with naming people whose names don't matter to most without context front-and-center is the joke. Even just including his job-title would have helped. I recognized the New South Whales abbreviation in the byline, or I would have had to read the article to get it 100%.
My own fascist-moron-in-office is already using the attack as an excuse for travel-bans, so why do I suddenly need to recognise a name I've never seen before and likely never will again, just because his excuse is slightly "better"?
EDIT: added the first two paragraphs, since the rest was apparently as unclear to y'all as grandma's article in UFO magazine that wasn't even meant for human eyes.
Well, it's an Australian politician in a post made on an Australian instance.
... in a World News community that happens to be hosted on an Aussie instance. Hi, I'm an American who came to Lemmy via a .de instance because that's where the most-active Machinists communities decided to move/mirror/whatever from Reddit.
Maybe you're right that trans-bashing would be a bad idea on blahaj, but is getting possessive/territorial about an international problem really the best look?
That said, did I call this an Australian-media problem? It's worst on British media. Honestly, Australian media seems a little better about the headline name thing than some of His Majesty's territories to me, or I wouldn't even implicitly make a joke of it re: an admittedly, eventually-discernable-as, Australian article.
You do understand American news does this all the time too, right?
Do you think everyone in the world knows who Ted Cruz or AOC is?
Dunno if you’ve ever heard the term “American Defaultism”? But this is a good example of it.
Again, did I call this a uniquely Australian problem? Did I even mention Australia in my initial comment? Claim Brittain had a monopoly on it? In all honesty, I don't even follow any (national)US News communities - I have no need to, because even the unimportant US shit is all-but-unavoidable across almost every community or outlet.
Okay, admit it. Emulating tabloids is just tre highbrow and suffering complaints about it from such as myself is below your station.
Here, something of mine for you to chew-on, pick-apart, stab me with, whatever, since I besmirched your beautifully sincere and authentic local media outlet that isn’t ape-ing a behavior that pervades western-media in-general to your detriment and mine, at all.
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