Media: Everything is awful, scary, terrifying
How the media shapes your emotions – everything is awful, scary, terrifying, getting worse blah blah blah. This screen snapshot is from Drudge Report taken on July 15, 2025.
“Science writer” works from home, outsources his disease risks to low paid delivery drivers
“Science Writers” stays at home, outsources disease risk to delivery people.
Doomerism and content mills
Authoritative news service BoredPanda says there a lot of potential disasters that we just don’t know about! Scary! 100% sourced to anonymous Reddit posts! Content mill doomerism as its finest!
Media: “Living paycheck to paycheck”
What does “paycheck to paycheck” mean? It has a very slippery definition to the point that it means nothing.
Meaningless propaganda: Doomsday clock at 90 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock is pointless and useless but gets much media attention. Its sole purpose is for propaganda purposes.
Media: Typical American cannot buy a home in 99% of nation
Once again, the media confuses average and median, leaves out that half of homebuyers are dual incomes, not a single income, and that people can and do buy homes less than the median price. Bad reporting.
Climate: How the media reported on tropical storm Hilary in California
The spin began with “deadly”, “life threatening”, “catastrophic” speculation, then followed that afterwards with “It wasn’t that bad”, and stories saying the tropical storm was 100% caused by the Global Boiling ClimateCrisis, and then a few adding historical context of past tropical storms and even a hurricane.
Media: Remember July’s reports on smoke from fires in Canada?
In July, the national news reported about smoke from Canada wild fires impacting east coast cities. Why the AQI was over 100! Oh my! In the past few days, the AQI at my town has exceeded 500. It’s not even worth a news story in my state, outside the County.
The Daily Doomer: “Existential threats are getting worse: nuclear war, AI fears, climate change”
We are all going to die, Really Soon Now. Your dose of The Daily Doomer.
Climate communications: When air temperatures are normal, report “land surface temperature” – much scarier!
When the air temperature is hot, but not unusually hot, switch to reporting on the summertime ground surface temperature (80C/180F) – it’s a bigger and scarier number than the air temperature so go for it! But it, alas, it is actually a normal summertime land surface temperature and has been for years and years. But the Doomers at parody news site The Guardian know that their readers don’t know that.