“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.
Social media: Reminder – the purpose of social media is to make a fool of yourself
TheTransitGuy argues the US is bad because it costs almost $500 to fly between 2 cities, ignoring that taking a bus is about $45, or renting a car is less than $100.
Media: “Single income households are a bygone era”
But that is not what the data says. The media doomers made that up.
Media: Celebrating the 250th anniversary
With negativity, doom and gloom. The US is the worst country in the history of the world according to media experts.
Media: “Plummeting gas prices” bring new problems
Always spin the story to negativity. Everything is awful. There is no good news that cannot be turned into negativity by the Masters of Doomerism!
NPR: Over population bad, now population decline is bad
NPR flip flops from over population bad to under population bad.
Media: “The American Dream is Dead”
“The American Dream is Dead” trope has been around for 50+ years, is not true, but the media loves running these nonsense stories to ruin your life.
Content mill Business Insider goes full scale cherry picking
The cherry picking done by BI is award winning!
Everything on YouTube is Fake
Many if not most of the “free yard cleanup” videos (with some exceptions) are fake content mill click bait. The Algorithm drives these fakes to millions of views. They are created by editing together unrelated police, HOA, neighbors and lawn cutting scenes.
Media: The US is the worst country in the history of the world
The media’s constant doomerisn is off scale.