Media doomerism, Part 4
All the doom that’s fit to print.
Media: Context free reporting, Part 3
Historical context is always important.
Media: They just make stuff up, Part 1
How reporter’ish people use celebrity endorsements in propaganda to promote their own interests.
Climate: Climate change news coverage of COP has vanished
I noticed this too
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Reporter does not understand amortized mortgages
Reporters should never, ever, be left in a room, by themselves, with a number.
Media: The “average cost of weddings” is $33k
The “average” wedding costs $33,000 or $35,000? No it doesn’t.
Media censorship: BBC altered Trump speech
The BBC edited Trump quotes, from an hour apart, to make it appear he said something he did not say. The BBC Director General and the BBC News CEO have now both resigned.
Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Media: News web sites see large drop in visitors
Search engines have turned into “web content summaries” and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.