Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.
If you do not closely follow politics you are a “political ostrich”
Name calling from the elite at The Atlantic: The People Who Don’t Read Political News.
Doomerism and content mills
Authoritative news service BoredPanda says there a lot of potential disasters that we just don’t know about! Scary! 100% sourced to anonymous Reddit posts! Content mill doomerism as its finest!
Media: “Living paycheck to paycheck”
What does “paycheck to paycheck” mean? It has a very slippery definition to the point that it means nothing.
“Crafting your scientist brand” – the rise of the celebrity expert
Scientists work with PR offices to establish a personal brand as a celebrity expert.
Media: TIME Magazine selects its flawed Top 100 AI Innovators List
TIME Magazine does its usual “Top 100” thing and it’s the usual nonsense and irrelevant selection process. I covered this in depth in 2023.
Media: Media’s sexist, racist obsession with “missing white women”
The media overwhelmingly biases coverage of missing people to white women, with men, older adults and POC least likely to be covered.
Apparently Americans hate America – why?
Everyone hates America, and apparently most of those doing the hating, are privileged Americans. It makes no sense.
Media running dangerously short on superlative adjectives
“Guzzling”, “Planet-eating” – nothing like pejorative writing from the unbiased media telling you how to think (thinking for yourself is dangerous).
Media: “Lethal” is the new hot summer word!
We used to have hot summers. Now we have “lethal”, “brutal”, “scorching” summers.