Media: Where idiocy runs rampant
“JournOList” creator says the pandemic was ended by vaccines. Uh, nope. Per the CDC, by mid-2023, almost 4 out of 5 adults in the US had had Covid-19.
Media: Another fake “died from heat” story
Another story alleging a death due to heat – except it was 82 deg F at 6 pm at the time the subject had a heart attack. This mistake has been made before, when a runner died on a day with “triple digit” temperatures. Except the race began at 5 am and temperatures were in the low 70s during the race. Details matter.
Media: “to protect from a tsunami… get under a table”?
Oh dear … reporter says in the event of a tsunami, you should get under a table or sturdy piece of furniture. How embarrassing.
Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…
Media: “Camp Mystic girls had a safe haven by the river for 100 years. Then, the flood came.”
Except the camp has flooded numerous times. Was that really a “safe haven”?
“Science writer” works from home, outsources his disease risks to low paid delivery drivers
“Science Writers” stays at home, outsources disease risk to delivery people.
Media: Canada’s “mass graves” story collapsed
Several years ago, the world erupted in anger over allegations that perhaps 1000s of indigeneous children had died in Canadian schools and were buried in unmarked graves. The story turned out not to be true.
Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.
Doomerism and content mills
Authoritative news service BoredPanda says there a lot of potential disasters that we just don’t know about! Scary! 100% sourced to anonymous Reddit posts! Content mill doomerism as its finest!
Does “disinformation” have much influence?
Are “disinformation” posts as widely seen, read and believed, as is asserted by “disinformation” and pro-censorship specialists?