Journalism: “How to Infuse Subliminal Bias into Your Education Reporting, a Primer”
Executive director of Choice Media explains how to bias news stories in favor of traditional, unionized public educational programs.
Journalism: Forbes publishes and deletes a fake news item about “Walmart Insulin”
Forbes publishes a fake news column about “Walmart insulin”, deletes it later the same day. No editor’s note explains the deletion.
Climate communications: Media and some climate researchers misleading the public
Two climate scientists, in a comment in Nature, note the media (and many climate scientists too) have been incorrectly presenting the RCMP8.5 “worst case scenario” as the most likely case. Data show this worst case is extremely unlikely, but its use in climate communications propaganda messaging has led to a mental health crisis as up to half of various population groups believe humanity may be extinct in ten years, and many youth are now medicated for anxiety caused by exaggerated climate communications efforts.
Privacy: #Facebook and everyone else know everything about you
Facebook has the ability to track everything you do on line and off line, including links to store “loyalty card” purchases, online purchases from third part web sites, even when you look up information on medication conditions.
Privacy: AVAST Anti-virus program collects all your web site browsing history and sells it to retailers
Avast anti-virus software has been tracking your web site visits, every web site page and click you make, your Google searches and GPS location information – and selling that to corporate America for marketing purposes. I just deleted all free anti-malware programs on my computer.
Privacy: University demands students install location tracking app on their phones, logs students locations during the day
University of Missouri demands all students install a location tracking app on their phones so the university knows where students are, at all times. Round the clock surveillance.
Privacy: We now have 24×7 surveillance of everything we do on or offline
Low cost technology has enabled us to collect any information, from anyone, from anywhere, 24 x 7, in real time – and to store that in massive databases. Most of us have no knowledge of what is being recorded about us. Corporations ostensibly will use the data to figure out how to sell us more stuff we probably do not need. Governments may use the data to control their populations activities or to automatically find suspects merely because their phone put them near a bad person at a bad time.
Privacy: Apple said to not encrypt cloud backup data of your iPhone
Apple reportedly dropped plans to encrypt all backup data from iPhones, leaving open a vulnerability – likely small – to access private data.
Psychology: Your brain fixates on bad things, and propagandists use that to manipulate you
A new book discusses our focus on negative news – and how negativity in all aspects of our life is not where we need to be. I’m buying the book.
Journalism: Newsweek caught making up a story. Again.
Newsweek did it again. They just keep making things up. I grew up on Newsweek and this surely isn’t the Newsweek of yesteryear. Its turned into quite a joke – more like Newsweak.