Media: Business Insider never fails as a source of dumb travel stories
The listicles, the numbers in the headlines, “my mistakes’, every formulaic crappy piece of writing possible!
More X nonsense
Claim: 100k kids available for adoption. Actual number: may be 30,000. No one questioned the false claims on X.
Social: Example of why I am no longer posting on X
Idiocy runs rampant.
Media: How news stories are routinely spun “negative”
The negativity expressed here is an explanation of how useless the media has become.
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?
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: Larry Ellison’s comments on reporters
Yes, Larry Ellison did suggest reporters are stupid.
Media: The Begging the Question Fallacy
Jezebiel publishes column urging witch’s curses on Charlie Kirk 2 days before his assassination – and then says this “is not who we are”.
Media: Where idiocy runs rampant
“JournOList” creator says the pandemic was ended by vaccines. Per the CDC, by mid-2023, almost 4 out of 5 adults in the US had had Covid-19.