Media: The evolution of media spin
AP stealth edits an article from really badly written to just badly written. It’s pretty bad.
Media: Activist journalism is the new media
If you thought journalists reported on past events, you are out of date. Today’s journalists are expected to advocate to shape the world the way they believe it should be. This is no longer “reporting”. Kosovo 2.0 was founded as a new type of journalistic platform for Kosovo, the region and beyond — a platform that rejects the tabloidization of important issues. We are committed to explanatory, contextual and narrative journalism, where storytelling is not just about documenting the world…
Media: “Negativity drives online news consumption – PubMed (nih.gov)”
“Negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
Media: Always spin good news as bad news
This is what the media does – always: Amid 2023 economic uncertainty, women make C-suite progress, see VC funding plateau (cnbc.com) This was a good news story, but they had to find another theme in which to twist this into bad news. The media is non-stop doomerism. Everything they report is an oppressor versus and oppressed victim because this simple model explains everything.
Misleading blog posts of the day
Motortrend stupidly runs an EV intentionally down to 0% and then writes a dumb story about it and pretends they committed journalism. Geesh.