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: Context free news item of the day
It’s time for the annual “% of Americans who can’t pay their bills” media content mill nonsense. It’s sort of the same every year.
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.
Daily Doomer: Everything is awful!
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?