Media Public Health: “White Lung Syndrome”
Media caught making up new scary disease “White lung syndrome” to describe well known “walking pneumonia”.
Media caught making up new scary disease “White lung syndrome” to describe well known “walking pneumonia”.
Oxfam claims a small group of billionaires have climate emissions equal to 66% of the world’s population. The study isn’t even to the level of a middle school science project – it’s that bad. They include all emissions from companies, and their products sold to others – if a billionaire has an investment in the company. This is fake news and CNBC’s content mill fell for it.
Newsweek falls for a Twitter parody account, and quotes from the account in a news story. Newsweek is written and edited by blithering idiots. They do this a lot. But that seems to be “journalism” now days.
Once again, the media confuses average and median, leaves out that half of homebuyers are dual incomes, not a single income, and that people can and do buy homes less than the median price. Bad reporting.
The sole purpose of today’s media is to frighten you and present you with negativity. This article should win an award for mindlessly frightening people about something that is very unlikely and, in fact, there are protections in place.