Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Doomerism: Americans feeling better about retirement prospects but let’s spin negative!
This is bad – the article documents things are better, but the original title was “Retirement will ‘take a miracle’ for 21%.
Where Gen Z is traveling in 2025
The “struggling” generation for which everything is awful is apparently planning a lot of international travel for the fall of 2025, says AirBnb.
Media: Click-bait headlines of The Cool Down
The Cool Down’s headlines are funny for their attempt at emotional triggers based on a faux appeal to authority.
Media: Latest epidemic to kill everyone
Of course. Media fear porn sells.
Media: Doomerism is us!
Always be sure to wrap success with negativity – that’s CNN!
Why put “Musk” in front of these story titles?
Why does the media preface any story about Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, etc, with “Musk’s” …
Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…