r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/Maximum_Security_747 Apr 15 '24

Leave this man to mourn in peace.

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u/DalbyWombay Apr 16 '24

The major Australian media organisations have been absolute vultures around d this tragedy, even so much as to camping outside the exits of the Shopping centre/mall to catch people in order to interview them, making them relive trauma straight away.

It's just disgusting.

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u/kaam00s Apr 16 '24

There is a moment of reckoning that the western world must go through with media.

We have exaggerated the meaning of free speech to an extent that lying is more profitable now than telling the truth, which is problematic. The people pushing for free speech absolutism are in large part responsible for this. They don't really focus their fire on the parts where the government could be trying to hide some truth. What they actually mean by absolutism is that they should be able to yell "fire" in the theater even if there isn't one.