Sunday, May 19, 2019

takimag: The Week That Perished - Witch hunt PC; Soph's common sense v BuzzFeed's lunacy; John Wayne thought criminal, etc.






The Week’s Most Global, Immobile, and Ignoble Headlines

YOUTUBE’S 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL COMEDIC GENIUS TAUNTS YOUTUBE EXEC

If BuzzFeed’s supremely wormy Joseph Bernstein has a problem with you, then you are clearly talented and are doing something right.

As the astronomically banal website’s chief witch hunter, Bernstein spends his days getting offended and his nights attempting to destroy the lives of those who’ve offended him. In the past he’s attempted to expose the identity of cartoonist A. Wyatt Mann and successfully got comedian Sam Hyde fired from a lucrative, high-profile job at the Cartoon Network.

Bernstein’s latest target for extermination—although at present, his attempts seem to be backfiring—is 14-year-old Sarah Connor, a high-school freshman from the Bay Area whose YouTube handle is “Soph.” ...

https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-38/