Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Media: Back to the “average cost of weddings” is $33k B.S.
The “average” wedding costs $33,000 or $35,000? No it doesn’t.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Media: “Lethal” is the new hot summer word!
We used to have hot summers. Now we have “lethal”, “brutal”, “scorching” summers.
Media: Since 2000, news headlines became increasingly negative, angry, sad and fearful
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.
Rule by technocratic experts
The inventors of “public relations” (the name given to the field after “propaganda” grew out of favor) argued for rule by technocratic elite, thinking that important decisions should be left to “experts” and not democracies.
Propaganda comes to restaurant menus
A little more information on restaurant menus could encourage people to choose meals with a lower climate footprint, according to a new study, which found that adding climate impact labels to foods was an effective strategy to reduce red meat consumption. Source: Beef burger or fish sandwich? Climate labels on menus can encourage people to eat less red meat, study shows | CNN To be fair, all restaurant menus are designed to encourage your purchase of higher profit items. They use…
Danish newspaper says they failed in coverage of Covid-19
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.
The role of media in establishing public consensus
Link to an essay on the role that “technical authority”, media propaganda, and how “consensus of experts” are used to influence the public and to exert control over us. This essay is an eye opener.
When you re-define the language, you can control the world
“Tear gas” and “Pepper spray” have been redefined by riot enthusiasts as “chemical munitions” and “chemical weapons” as they seek to ban the use of crowd control measures by police, when employed at “mostly peaceful protests”. Changing the language is one of the first steps taken in a propaganda campaign. Language redefinition goes on all the time, and lately, with increasing frequency.