Added a new category today – the “Daily doomer” – because per the media, everything, all the time is doom and gloom! Everything is awful! A weaker dollar, skyrocketing prices and ‘record’ visitor numbers: Good luck in Europe this summer | CNN Everything is so awful that a record number of Americans are traveling to Europe in 2024?
Funny – fact checker Snopes said in the past that a Covid lab origin was a conspiracy theory, then one of their fact checkers denies they ever said that.
Expert suggests you not “do your own research” and think for yourself. Rely on the experts, like him, apparently.
Betteridge’s Law strikes again. The answer to the headline is No, of course.
Nope. This uses the technique of asking a rhetorical question, whose answer is No, to make an implication.
“Negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
David Axe, the reporter who has spent years writing basically the same story week after week about Covid, with hysterical, fear-inducing and wrong headlines, is back at it again!
Nothing like being off by 1000x.
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.
Source: Reporter David Axe publishes literally the same headline, every month for a year – and all of them have been wrong – Social Panic At this point, it’s hilarious. The reporter David Axe has a BA in history and an MA in fiction writing (really).