Cherry picking: Everyone wants to spin the story
Pick cherries to make whatever flavor of cherry pie you want.
Pick cherries to make whatever flavor of cherry pie you want.
CNBC cites a Pew report to claim that more people are sharing living arrangements due to student debts. But nowhere in the Pew report does it say that. In fact, the Pew report suggests the majority of the change is due to the increase in the immigrant population in the U.S. CNBC just made up a news report to push the student debt meme.
FB has long had prohibitions on hate speech and threats of violence against other. But now, they’ve approved such speech if directed at Russian or Belarusian leadership. This is a very bad move on their part.
The White House releases a chart on economic growth that has a highly unusual Y-Axis. You may have to look closely to see the problem.
The UK government is accused of deliberately using scare tactics to force the population into compliance with its public health Orders and mandates (which they elite themselves ignore). Fear is one of the most powerful of propaganda motivators and has long been a tool of tyrants.
When the government launches a government sponsored propaganda campaign against tens of thousands of scientists and medical professionals – whose crime was having a different perspective and different approaches to the pandemic – the government has lost the messaging. Once outed, the reputation of those responsible is sort of shot and they need to go.
Over the span of a few days, the SF Chronicle went from a headline emphasizing “Winter Covid surge” to a new title emphasizing “the endgame”, and a new illustration, removing the fear and negativity focus. Sadly, the media always goes for fear and negativity and manages to spin good news into bad. This time they got caught at it.
Facebook’s own internal research, secret until now, found that Instagram and it’s addicting nature, and how it promotes certain types of posts to youth actively causes mental health problems among the young.
School district officials spent two days investigating the teacher’s alleged actions and classroom environment. Source: Sacramento CA teacher filmed by Project Veritas to be fired | The Sacramento Bee
CNN runs a prominent news story about the 5 states where ICU beds available is less than 10%. They conveniently left out many states that are also in that situation, apparently to make a point about Southern states?