Media: Nope -> Grasshopper fire to be largest in state history
Most of the fire is in Idaho but they are counting that as being in Oregon. Never trust the media.
The obsession with lifestyle creep
We hope this X post is a troll meant as satire. Otherwise, we are toast.
Media: The Oregonian goes full on brain dead
“All US Postal Services locations to close, mail won’t be delivered” – because it’s a Federal Holiday, duh.
The Fake GoFundMe Campaigns: The Chad Hatten story
Everything online is either fake or a bot now days – or both!
Social: The Leading Report is fake news, conspiracy tales
Saw people sharing this on social media from a well known fake news/conspiracy theory/misinformation website.
Media: The media’s war on Baby Boomers (or Gen Z…)
Generation bashing stories are created as emotional click-bait nonsense – to get page hits to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Media: Bloomberg publishes fake story sourced to anonymous troll
I assume that 100% of the news stories are false, as the starting point. I assume all reporters are unethical liars and work from there.
Media:USA Today admits to having hallucinated a story they published
Why report news when you can just publish stuff you made up?
Media: People can only buy homes in 3 US states (hah hah)
Yet homes are selling and home ownership is near an all time high.
“Attention Economics” – how media’s use of “alarming” words inflates reality
“Attention economics” and media headline escalation drives click bait stories. Everything now has a dramatic, scary headline.