Media: Don’t do your own research, rely on experts
Expert suggests you not “do your own research” and think for yourself. Rely on the experts, like him, apparently.
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.
Media: Rely on Appeal to Authority to vet information
In the same week, probably half a dozen allegedly independent media outlets all run stories saying “trust the experts, do not think for yourself”. Wild.
Media: “Negativity drives online news consumption – PubMed (nih.gov)”
“Negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
Content mills: News you cannot trust
An easy way to spot content mill garbage – the stories have no author! Of course, some AI sites have created fake author bios with AI generated head shots.
Media: Communities face “News Deserts”
Communities face “news deserts” as journalism shuts down (except not really). Implies we need to have government funded journalism (really?)
Media Public Health: “White Lung Syndrome”
Media caught making up new scary disease “White lung syndrome” to describe well known “walking pneumonia”.
Media: Genius level journalism here – if you live a long ways from a trauma center, then you live a long ways from a trauma center
Wow. If you live a really long ways from a trauma center then you live a really long ways away from a trauma center. Apparently, little populated areas should have the same hospitals as bigger cities.
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!
Media experts
Washington Post’s expert reporter on food wrote an entire book that she later concluded was completely wrong. The problem may be that she has no formal training in food, nutrition or health – she has a BA in English.