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.
Public Apology Generator
When you screw up in public or on social media, here is a handy algorithm to generate your apology.
AI to produce nearly all web content within a year
The market for all the “freelance authors” spinning out junk for Business Insider, will be gone within a year, replaced by AI content.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Media: Why do people write stories like this?
She writes a story about living at home to save money, while earning just $2,500/month as, basically, a writer. Make this make sense.
Climate communications: Prepare to see lots of these stories
We are coming up on “COP30”, the annual global confab of business jet flyers to discuss climate. Decades of these huge meetings – often with over 100,000 attendees and support staff flying in to dine on flown in exotic foods – nothing has happened.
Hate has no boundaries
Hate seems widespread – and pointless, and says much about today’s college campuses.
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Media: Drop in beer consumption due to Trump
Actually, consumption per person has declined since the 1980s, was stable for a while, and now, a majority of Americans view even drinking in moderation as bad for health. But a reporter cherry picks their way through the data to blame the public’s political choices.