Media: Is journalism a humanities degree or social sciences degree?
Is a degree in journalism a humanties degree? A social sciences degree? Something else?
Media: “Only 14 states where you can afford home on less than $75,000/year”
Hard to tell if the media likes to lie or is just incompetent or both. Once again, they media dweebs botch a story. This might have been written by AI.
Media: Media will soon run out of adjectives “rain bomb”
Expect a government program to provide new adjectives as the media runs out of superlatives:
Social Media: Creators of fake social media accounts more likely to present as female persons
Female accounts garner more views and clicks – thus, fake accounts and AI-generated bot accounts are more likely to appear as human women than as human men: Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big Tech all use faux females to get clicks (msn.com)
A 1 in 1,000 year event does not mean what reporters think it means
The media, again, does not understand what a 1 in 100 or 1,000 year storm means.
Daily Doomer: Everything is awful!
Added a new category today – the “Daily doomer” – because per the media, everything, all the time is doom and gloom! Everything is awful! A weaker dollar, skyrocketing prices and ‘record’ visitor numbers: Good luck in Europe this summer | CNN Everything is so awful that a record number of Americans are traveling to Europe in 2024?
Gendered Language and Personal Pronouns
I am having difficulty mastering the plethora of personal pronouns.
Media: What happens when English Lit majors report on a STEM subject
This is wrong – they confused G-forces with “gravitational forces”. The force of gravity did not change. The AP does not understand the gravity of their error. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Rapid changes in the gravitational force led to a 178-feet (54-meter) altitude drop of a Singapore Airlines flight that left one passenger dead and many others who were not buckled up injured in extreme turbulence last week, a preliminary investigation by Singapore’s Transport Ministry said Wednesday. The original articles does…
Education: Privilege and entitlement
The arrogant, entitled, self absorbed, narcissistic elite think trashing universities will end the war in Gaza.
Fact check: Snopes says Covid lab origin is a conspiracy theory, and claims they never said that
Funny – fact checker Snopes said in the past that a Covid lab origin was a conspiracy theory, then one of their fact checkers denies they ever said that.