Exploiting a news story is basically manipulation of a story in short. Today, with our blog and web driven media cycle, nothing can escape exaggeration, distortion, fabrication and simplification.
So we’ve all heard the story of Laker player D'angelo Russell ( Aka Swaggy P) allegedly putting his teammate Nick Young “on blast” about cheating on his soon to be wife pop star Iggy Azalea. In perhaps the one of the sneakiest moves of the social media we’ve ever seen from an NBA player, LA Laker D'angelo Russell recorded a video of a private conversation he was having with his teammate Nick Young who clearly was unaware that he was on film. It reveals that Nick cheated on Iggy Azalea sometime this year. Unfortunately for D’Angelo Russell, the Laker rookie was just hacked yesterday (so coincidental!) so there’s a chance that this video is part of what came from that hack. Iggy made her response through twitter only stating, “hmmm I see D Angelo Russell is trending... I actually liked his film. Thanks bro.”. This “video she’s referring to is the one stated earlier and is provided in the link below.
This story has literally blown up on social media and has been the topic of majority of the leading memes lately. These are big stars were talking about so there is sure to be a little ruffling of feathers when news like this get out, but geeze not this many feathers. That’s what leads me to say this story is definitely being milked for what is actually worth.
If you turn on any pop culture news outlet you’re sure to get a glimpse of this story, but why? This is someone else’s relationship, I could see this not looking too good for the Lakers in the most minute way at most but nothing too devastating. The media does this to distract us from what’s really going on what’s really important. Instead of letting us know about our dying planet all you can seem to find is over exaggerated stories of a cheating NBA player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFqGUyApyic
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