there's a reason why real information isn't presented as storybooks with pretty pictures
Often it is, in addition to the other more serious mediums.
They're not mutually exclusive. You can have both.
I do care about getting this particular message out to a wider audience, but I do not think infographics are the way to do it.
I think you might be assuming that if the creator of this infographic chose not to create it, that they would have spent their time on some other superior communication method, still on the subject of the TPP. When in all likelihood, they would have instead done nothing.
In this instance it looks to have been created by this dude: https://twitter.com/luminconsulting ...his hobbies are: coffee, infographics, marketing, and golf.
His coffee and golf skills aren't much help here, so he's done something he's good at. If he didn't create these infographics, do you think he instead would have gone and written some high-brow longform article or produced a slick video? No, because he doesn't do those things.
He makes infographics. So the only possible outcome of your (and parent's) negative post is to discourage people to get involved in their own way. It's not going to be replaced by something better, we just end up with one less message on our side of the subject.
There isn't some magical limited number of "anti-TPP media credits" to be spent on the total effort people put into getting the message out there.
Have you thought of a better method that: (1) Communicates with the idiot portion of the audience, and (2) that this same guy could have created with the same amount of time/effort?
I'm not disagreeing with you on the fact that there might be better methods. I'm just saying that pointing out that this medium is for idiots has zero benefit, and the downside of discouraging people to get involved. Plus also the fact that you're aligning the audience (who we're trying to get on our side) with idiots.
This guy at least made a contribution to the cause. Giving him (or his work) shit, only harms the cause.