The use of card stacking as a propaganda technique
Card stacking is a technique of showing mostly benefits while hiding harms and other problems.
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: AP implies The Aral Sea dried up due to climate change
The AP stretches quite a bit to imply the shrinking of the shallow Aral Sea was due to climate change. Soviet-era irrigation projects diverted the incoming rivers to agriculture and the Sea immediately began shrinking.
Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories
The “world’s happiest country” myth lives on year after year after year. Finland now pretends it knows why it was identified as “the world’s happiest country”. In fact, the metrics used to determine “happiest” have nothing to do with happiest. The “happiest” title was promoted as sounding better than a metric that measured “well-being” based on things having nothing to do with happiness!
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: When NBC News was caught manufacturing the news
In the 1990s, NBC News claimed Chevrolet trucks exploded upon crash impacts. NBC News staged a crash with hidden igniters and an intentional fuel leak to get their “video proof” but was eventually caught for faking the video. The NBC News president and 3 producers were fired, the reporter was moved to a local TV station, and NBC agreed to pay all legal costs.
Social: Most social media content created by a small group of accounts with high production values
Social media is no longer about posting your homemade videos on Youtube – now, most successful videos are from those with professional production quality.
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.