Women account for 55% of newsroom jobs, while men account for 45%. Since 2 out of 3 journalism grads are now women, this will over time shift further towards news positions staffed primarily by women, the opposite of 40 years ago.
Almost all social media influencers are women.
Every year, an activist/lobbying group issues a report saying people earning minimum wage cannot afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the country. They play a sleight-of-hand trick by obfuscating (and not revealing) that they are saying such individuals cannot rent an apartment priced at the 40th percentile. Stated another way, this report finds – every year – that people earning minimum wage can not rent apartments priced in the top 60 percent of the market – yet obviously, lower earners likely rent at the bottom of the market, not the top. Every year, the media morons run the same story, never understanding what this report says.
Springfield College issues pronoun guidelines that prohibit referencing “mother”, “father”, “brother”, “sister”, “son” and “daughter” or “husband” and “wife”. You are to use alternatives instead. It is also against their guidelines to say you do not have personal pronoun preferences. The Orwellian speech police now control you every thought.
“Gas guzzler” is emotive wording, intended and used to elicit a response from the reader. It is not neutral language – it is propaganda messaging. There is, surprisingly, no official definition of what “gas guzzler” even means.
For every reporter, there are 6.2 “public affairs”/public relations staff working behind the scenes to manufacture the news reports to fit their desires.
Attribution studies attempt to connect individual weather events to climate change. But the ability to do that is so limited that the results are not meaningful. Repeated exaggeration and misreporting leads to skepticism – and serves no useful purpose.
Twitter is not good for one’s mental health. Studies show that Twitter (and some other social media) act as outrage amplifiers, creating more anger and more polarization.
American suburban life seems to regress to a mean of segregation. A 2011 analysis using Census Bureau data found that a “typical white” American lives in a neighborhood that’s 75 percent white. Source: A Tale Of Two Suburbs | FiveThirtyEight A real shocker – the “typical white American lives in a neighborhood that’s 75 percent white”. This is then interpreted by writer Clare Malone to mean that most white Americans live in segregated neighborhoods – in a country that is…
Numerous media reports, all sourced to social media posts, say Florida has food shortages due to Gov. Desantis’ policies. But they are showing photos and videos of empty store shelves that occurred in the past after hurricanes, or one video showed empty refrigerated goods section at Walmart. That actually happened – but it was due to a malfunctioning refrigeration system so food was temporarily removed while the unit was undergoing repairs. “Professional” media sourcing to anonymous items on social media tends to end badly.