Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…
Media: “Camp Mystic girls had a safe haven by the river for 100 years. Then, the flood came.”
Except the camp has flooded numerous times. Was that really a “safe haven”?
Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.
Climate: How to mislead with a chart
The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions. But they are not.
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. Once again, they media dweebs botch a story. This might have been written by AI.
Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories
The “world’s happiest country” myth lives on year after year after year. Finland now pretends it knows why it was identified as “the world’s happiest country”. In fact, the metrics used to determine “happiest” have nothing to do with happiest. The “happiest” title was promoted as sounding better than a metric that measured “well-being” based on things having nothing to do with happiness!
Media Public Health: “White Lung Syndrome”
Media caught making up new scary disease “White lung syndrome” to describe well known “walking pneumonia”.
Social: How not to respond on social media
Eventbrite founder and chairman makes a fool of himself on social media.
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.
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.