In July, the national news reported about smoke from Canada wild fires impacting east coast cities. Why the AQI was over 100! Oh my! In the past few days, the AQI at my town has exceeded 500. It’s not even worth a news story in my state, outside the County.
Some one posts a TikTok video claiming “Baby boomers” never had to deal with inflation and had it easy finding jobs. She is factually and logically wrong, but the media turns this into a viral story, without noting the Tiktoker was wrong. The TikToker demonstrated she knows nothing of history without saying she knows nothing of history. It’s not a good look!
Half of recent news reports about holiday suicides spread disinformation that suicides go up over the holidays: Summary: Despite media claims that suicide rates increase dramatically over the holiday period, researchers report the average daily suicide rate during the holidays remain among the lowest rate of any period of the year. Source: University of Pennsylvania The holiday-suicide myth, the false claim that the suicide rate rises during the year-end holiday season, persisted in some news coverage through the 2021-22 holidays, according to…
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.
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.
Reporter completely screws the story. Never, ever leave a reporter or editor in a room, alone, with a number.
By midday Monday, fewer than 1,000 flights were delayed in the U.S. Earlier in the weekend, airlines had canceled hundreds of flights while more than 10,000 were delayed. Source: U.S. flight disruptions finally ease as the holiday weekend winds down They spent the past two weeks telling us that airline travel was in total chaos and the 4th of July weekend would be a total meltdown. it was not. They then began lumping “delayed” flights with the “canceled” numbers –…
GMA/ABC says that Justice Jackson is the first Black Supreme Court Justice. In fact, she is the third.
Reporter asserts all Covid deaths in the U.S. were preventable. My pointing out that Covid was not controlled anywhere in the world (having accurate data collection and reporting), and my pointing out that 27 other countries had worse outcomes than the U.S. is “denying that the deaths were preventable”. Therefore, you are cautioned that my inconvenient questions and observations are official disinformation, as determined by the Associated Press. Also, remember Betteridge’s Law – any headline that ends in a question mark means the story is bull shit.
“Journalists” now pretend they commit journalism by creating a story out of anonymous person’s online rants. Every day we can see fake news stories like this. At best, this is blogging – if even that. It certainly is not journalism.