Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Media: The “average cost of weddings” is $33k
The “average” wedding costs $33,000 or $35,000? No it doesn’t.
Media censorship: BBC altered Trump speech
The BBC edited Trump quotes, from an hour apart, to make it appear he said something he did not say. The BBC Director General and the BBC News CEO have now both resigned.
Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Media: News web sites see large drop in visitors
Search engines have turned into “web content summaries” and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Media: Why do people write stories like this?
She writes a story about living at home to save money, while earning just $2,500/month as, basically, a writer. Make this make sense.
Media: Drop in beer consumption due to Trump?
Consumption per person has declined since the 1980s, was stable for a while, and now, a majority of Americans view even drinking in moderation as bad for health.
Media: NY Times selects students for intern/mentorship program
The NY Times selects 19 students for their prestigious intern/mentorship program. The selectees, however, do not mirror the characteristics of the US population, although this could be due to sample bias, in that those choosing to study journalism are not a representative sample of the US population.
Media: Larry Ellison’s comments on reporters
Yes, Larry Ellison did suggest reporters are stupid.