Media: I’m so old, I remember when this type of news reporting was sexist
Remember when this type of ‘reporting’ would be condemned?
Atlantic Magazine misleads readers with fictional story presented as reality
An essay in The Atlantic describes a mother who loses a son to measles. It’s presented as a true story – except it was entirely fake.
Media: Majority of Americans have low confidence in journalism
Just 6% of adults say they have high confidence in journalism.
The most self-absorbed writer in the world?
64 year old freelance writer bemoans she’s saved nothing for retirement. Spends much of her time writing about how others are bad people and she is brainy and smarter than everyone else. Hmmmm. The state of freelance writing today?
Doomerism: And the definition of “poverty”
Doomers love the idea that if you earn less than about $140k/year, you live in poverty.
Media: Can you live on one income?
The proportion of households living on zero, one or two incomes has remained nearly constant for 25 years.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Doomerism: Americans feeling better about retirement prospects but let’s spin negative!
This is bad – the article documents things are better, but the original title was “Retirement will ‘take a miracle’ for 21%.