Since 2000, news headlines have become increasingly negative, angry, sad, disgusted and fearful in their wording. Obviously, this affects the mental health of news readers.
CNBC just recycles old stories, over and over.
The media jumps on stories saying Gen Z has everything worse, and spreads negativity far and wide. But surveys of Gen Z show Gen Z thinks they are doing better than their parents at the same ages. It’s as if the media just makes up everything for click-bait.
Once again, the media confuses average and median, leaves out that half of homebuyers are dual incomes, not a single income, and that people can and do buy homes less than the median price. Bad reporting.
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.
Today’s journalists are a mono-culture (nearly 4 in 5 have degrees in arts and humanities), and at the national level, attended elite universities, with global experiences. They are disconnected from the public about which they report, and for whom their stories are targeted.
the authors find that students with wealthy parents enjoy a large advantage in elite college admissions that academic credentials alone cannot explain. Moreover, graduates of these institutions reap significant monetary and nonmonetary rewards compared to similar college graduates who attended less-prestigious schools. New Study Investigates Why Elite Colleges Favor Rich Kids (forbes.com) And this applies to elite journalists as well: The twelve most prestigious private schools (the Ivy League plus the University of Chicago, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of…
News author bios tell us that the writer enjoys hiking, has 3 dogs, and likes to write music – rather than giving us background on the author’s qualifications to write the story. Why does the media do this?
Partly because so many of those in the field went to elite schools, and partly because the major national news outlets like the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post are catering to their readers, who are the elite who also went to elite schools. But it’s hard not to suspect that there is also another reason for reporters’ focus on elite colleges: At least in major national media outlets, that’s where most of them went. There’s…
The Pulitzer Prizes are nothing but elite self-congratulation divorced from real journalism (nypost.com) Ouch.