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| Subject: “Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media, LOL Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:45 pm | |
| Laid-off journalists and their supporters have seen their Twitter mentions littered with a phrase that some are suggesting is part of a targeted anti-media harassment campaign.
Last week, more than 1,000 jobs were eliminated at publishers including BuzzFeed and Verizon-owned Yahoo/AOL. Beginning Friday, Twitter was flooded with messages from freshly laid-off journalists, as well as condolences from their former colleagues. Media Twitter was simultaneously mourning the vicious cutbacks and condemning the VC publisher culture that necessitated them. Many people retweeted requests for work, lauded the talents of the unfairly fired, or criticized BuzzFeed for its poor handling of the situation. But there was one frequently tweeted phrase that stood out from the sympathy: “Learn to code.” - Quote :
- Think of all the code you could be learning instead of wasting time like that
— Skip Choices (@mashxtowin) January 28, 2019 - Quote :
- They should learn to code https://t.co/rr98VXeqJf
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) January 26, 2019
More: https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists |
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