Sir Xsarus wrote:
Nothing like validating outrage by manufacturing it.
/shrug
I would suggest that to a degree *all* public outrage is "manufactured" to some degree. What makes it "public outrage"? How do you know when it's happening? When something happens in the news you might think "Wow. That's just wrong!", but if that's the end of it, then that's the end of it. If the news decides to run a story about how outraged people are about that something, guess what? The story continues and now it's about how outraged people are about said thing. Given the volume of stories in which this *could* be done, it's kinda telling to pay attention to which ones it *is* done.
And not to place all the blame on the media industry itself, there are whole organizations which seem to exist for not much else than to create exactly that sort of public outrage. They pick and choose which things they then make a big deal about, and they have enough pull with the media to get their "outrage" covered. Done properly, they can keep a story which might be forgotten in a couple days in front of the people for several news cycles.
Please tell me you didn't just realize that this goes on?