Media: How to spot content mill trash
“Top 10” lists, or any time a number is in a headline, is a sign of content mill trash.
Apparently Americans hate America – why?
Everyone hates America, and apparently most of those doing the hating, are privileged Americans. It makes no sense.
Media running dangerously short on superlative adjectives
“Guzzling”, “Planet-eating” – nothing like pejorative writing from the unbiased media telling you how to think (thinking for yourself is dangerous).
Media: “Lethal” is the new hot summer word!
We used to have hot summers. Now we have “lethal”, “brutal”, “scorching” summers.
Media: Expansive definition of homesteading
What do you think of when you hear that someone is “homesteading”? The definition now includes anyone with a vegetable garden, doing their own canning or baking bread. Hmmmm…
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. This story is so bad, was it 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.