Climate: Media speculates on Maui Fires
What was the cause of the devastating Maui fires? At this point, no one knows. But media has no trouble speculating!
Media: Content farms are using AI-generated text to sell eyeballs to advertisers
“Content mills” and “Content Generation” services are becoming the backbone of web “journalism”. 57% of newsroom jobs at newspapers went away from 2008 onwards. What does those people do now? They write stories about that one weird trick that explains why this airport did something to someone… in other words, fluffy filler click-bait articles.
Media advocacy: Upcoming climate conference
Why the excessive (and warped) “climate” reporting in the summer of 2023? It’s battle space preparation in advance of an upcoming international climate conference. This occurs every year prior to these conferences.
Old social media posts on Instagram popularize site, leading to injuries and fatalities
Old social media posts popularize a site in a remote location in the Oregon Cascades, leading to ill prepared and unthinking visitors engaging in high risk activities – which in turn has led to injuries and deaths, and a big burden on fire and volunteer rescue groups. The National Forest service now plans to ban swimming at the location.
Another one: Why do science and health reporters lack backgrounds in their subject?
Another “tech” writer (actually the Managing Editor) whose formal training is in creative writing, not math, science, statistics, marketing or anything related to the subject.