Cherry picking: Everyone wants to spin the story
Pick cherries to make whatever flavor of cherry pie you want.
Perpetual Culture of Outrage: Wow, people got bent out of shape over an innocent social media comment
Wow – a woman posts on social media that she and her husband enjoy coffee each morning, sitting in their garden. The perpetual culture of outrage piles on and turns her tweet into a viral, and then mass media, story, about how everyone has a need to be perpetually outraged!!!!!
White Anglos culturally appropriate the German language, from Germans
Cambridge University is teaching students a fake form of the German language, that does away with the language’s gender usage. Many languages, German, French, Spanish – and so on – have gendered nouns that require a gender specific definite or indefinite article (and other forms).
Do accurate details matter in forming an argument?
NPR reporter bungles simple facts to make her argument.
The Oregonian newspaper admits to long history of racism
The Oregonian, published since the 19th century, admits to a long and powerful history of deliberate, cruel racism and as an advocate of xenophobia, much like the admission of National Geographic in 2018. Powerful publishers have spread hate and disinformation for more than a century – how can we trust anything they produce today? They have all lost our trust.
Media: CNBC confuses “median” and “average”
This article confuses “average” in the title, with “median” used in the report. Why do they do this?
Fake news: “How a digital nomad mom of 2 used ‘geo-arbitrage’ to save thousands on food and childcare while working from multiple countries”
Just an ordinary Mom of 2 traveling the world, working remotely, and saving tons of money by earning a U.S. income while living in much lower cost of living countries … the meme expressed here is bogus.
She was born in Albania, speaks multiple languages, attended universities in the U.S. and elsewhere, and did various work-related internship programs in Albania and Switzerland, was founder and CEO of he own business, almost certainly has EU citizenship and US residency, enabling her family to stay past the 90-day visa limits.
Just an ordinary Mom of 2.
Propaganda: Focusing on unlikely worst case scenarios does not produce optimal public outcomes
New paper notes climate models, and for that matter media attention is focused on the least likely scenarios – which are the worst case. But some say these worst-case scenarios are not physically possible, let alone likely. A direct consequence of much attention given to likely impossible scenarios is that 40% of young adults suffer from serious anxiety, scared of outcomes that are highly unlikely to develop.
Media: Trust in media reaches all-time low
“Just 7% of Americans have ‘a great deal’ of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have ‘a fair amount,” said Gallup in dishing up the depressing news for media outlets. “Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage…
Reporter David Axe publishes literally the same headline, every month for a year – and all of them have been wrong
A reporter named David Axe writes the same, scary, fear-inducing “worst Covid variant yet” headline story nearly every month the past year. He’s been wrong every time. But his editors don’t seem to mind.