Betteridge’s Law Again: “Shots Fired at Colorado Supreme Court after They Booted Trump from the Ballot. Coincidence?”
Betteridge’s Law strikes again. The answer to the headline is No, of course.
Betteridge’s Law: Amid a new COVID-19 surge, should we all be wearing masks again? Experts weigh in
Nope. This uses the technique of asking a rhetorical question, whose answer is No, to make an implication.
Media: “Negativity drives online news consumption – PubMed (nih.gov)”
“Negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
Media: David Axe and his hysterical Covid headlines are back!
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!
Journalism
Nothing like being off by 1000x.
Media: Exaggerate much? Solar storm to end civilization?
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.
Reporter David Axe publishes literally the same headline, every month for a year – and all of them have been wrong – updated
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).
Climate: How the media reported on tropical storm Hilary in California
The spin began with “deadly”, “life threatening”, “catastrophic” speculation, then followed that afterwards with “It wasn’t that bad”, and stories saying the tropical storm was 100% caused by the Global Boiling ClimateCrisis, and then a few adding historical context of past tropical storms and even a hurricane.
Climate: “Rebranding Climate Change as a Public Health Issue”
Should climate change be re-branded as a public health issue?
Media: Remember July’s reports on smoke from fires in Canada?
In July, the national news reported about smoke from Canada wild fires impacting east coast cities. Why the AQI was over 100! Oh my! In the past few days, the AQI at my town has exceeded 500. It’s not even worth a news story in my state, outside the County.