Ridiculous and pointless frightening headline keeps everyone in a state of anxiety and acts as click-bait. This was from more than a day ago. A day later, we – surprise! – survived.
The “boxes” are called Flight Data Recorders and they are bright orange, not black. But leave it to the media to create an imaginary term out of thin air to describe the data recorders: One of the two black boxes containing data from Monday’s plane crash has been found, Chinese state media said Wednesday. Source: China Eastern Airlines Boeing crash: Black box found Do you wonder how much other stuff the media just makes up on the spot?
A Russian Telegram channel purporting to “fact check” reports about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is itself a fake operation used to spread misleading propaganda messaging. Unfortunately, many “fact check” operations, including from professional Western media, are propaganda messaging in a new form. Read this for some background on that.
In missing person case after case, the media provides saturation coverage – but only if the victim is an attractive, young, blue-eyed blonde woman. The inherent racism and sexism of media news directors is astounding.
Great example of stupid click-bait fake news services.
One of the largest papers in Denmark says they failed their readers by only publishing official government statements about Covid, without due skepticism and questioning.
Read the story on my Travel blog: National Geographic spent decades as a racist reporter of life – and that is their own conclusion – Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking
CBC makes a fool of itself. Geesh. Some calculations I did a couple of years ago suggest that for an asthmatic that uses an inhaler every day, this accounts for perhaps 1-2% of their household’s daily greenhouse effect. This is not a high priority area for the CBC to freak out over. Two years ago, Time Magazine insultingly said asthmatics were “choking the planet” thinking that was a funny play on words. Not only was it rude and inconsiderate, it was not true.
Newsweek demonstrates yet again that it is a perennial fake news publisher by cherry picking a data series to prove their point. This is bull shit level reporting and why no one believes mainstream news reports anymore.
Ooops – 9/11 news story retracted after discovering almost all of the article was fake or wrong. Ouch.