Spot Journalistic Bias and Manipulation (was Media Bias)
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It's the mainstreaming of the Q fantasy.
I was scrolling through replies to a tweet a while back. I think the tweet was highlighting white supremacist rhetoric and referring to it as such, and someone replied that that they didn't like how frequently the term was being used (I don't necessarily disagree, and overuse, especially when inappropriate, chips away at the meaning of the term--but I seem to recall it was appropriate given the content of the rhetoric being highlighted) and that they couldn't think of anything much worse than "white supremacist" to call someone. If I'd been able to reply, I may have suggested that "pedophile" is pretty bad.
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I don't know. I got a "centrist" vibe from the poster. It wasn't one of those "you leftists call everyone you don't agree with racist" sort of things.I'd be willing to bet "iT's NoT iF tHeY'rE rEaLLy gRoOMiNG KiDs!!1!" is one of the first replies you'd be likely to receive. It's difficult to embark upon a moral crusade without absolving oneself of any pesky hypocrisy first.
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The only thing Mickey Mouse is guilty of is grooming kids into being obsessed with hot dogs. And if you're not a parent of a kid obsessed with all things Mickey, then listen to the song of my people.
Seriously, that song is going to give me Nam flashbacks.
Seriously, that song is going to give me Nam flashbacks.
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The only saving grace is that They Might Be Giants performed that song. (Thankfully haven't heard it since 2014 or so.)
Get them to watch Bluey and you'll be a lot happier. It's almost worth starting a thread on it...
Whenever I see a strategy / thinktank / PAC / brainwashing / lobbying group with the words "Concerned" or "Family" in it, you pretty much know what kind of nuts are going to be in the container spread without having to double-check the label.
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This is why people get such mixed messages regarding viruses and how misinformation starts:
ABC News: monkeypox outbreak is unlikely
abcnews.go.com
NBC News: monkeypox outbreak can't be ruled out
www.cnbc.com
While they both essentially say the same thing, if you just browse headlines like I assume a decent percentage of people do, you can see where one headline puts people into a panic while the other doesn't. Saying something is unlikely makes people believe it's not going to happen. However, saying something can't be ruled out has people thinking the worst. I get it's all about getting clicked, but this is how misinformation starts. All it takes is one person to latch onto the NBC headline and spin it so much that it becomes "the WHO is hiding something, are Bill Gates and George Soros responsible?"
ABC News: monkeypox outbreak is unlikely
Unlikely monkeypox outbreak will turn into a pandemic, WHO says
During a public session on Monday, a WHO official said it is unlikely the monkeypox outbreak will turn into a pandemic like COVID-19.
NBC News: monkeypox outbreak can't be ruled out
WHO can’t rule out monkeypox pandemic risk, says there’s a window of opportunity to stop outbreak
The WHO has said it is too soon to tell whether a recent monkeypox outbreak could lead to a global pandemic.
While they both essentially say the same thing, if you just browse headlines like I assume a decent percentage of people do, you can see where one headline puts people into a panic while the other doesn't. Saying something is unlikely makes people believe it's not going to happen. However, saying something can't be ruled out has people thinking the worst. I get it's all about getting clicked, but this is how misinformation starts. All it takes is one person to latch onto the NBC headline and spin it so much that it becomes "the WHO is hiding something, are Bill Gates and George Soros responsible?"
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It won't crash, the market will gradually press the brake pedal and decelerate until eventually accelerating again. I guess they like the word "crash", it's another hot button word in a journalistic lexicon teeming with thousands of them.
I don't see how hoping prices come down is "entitlement", as most sane people want to prepare for a future by either having a property of their own, or just try not to stretch their budgets higher than necessary.
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"Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Another mark in the column for newspapers being nothing more than agenda-pushing propaganda. This even borders on being a mirror version of communism will work this time!
Another mark in the column for newspapers being nothing more than agenda-pushing propaganda. This even borders on being a mirror version of communism will work this time!
I'll put money that the (offshore for tax reasons) owners of both papers were already shorting the £ ahead of the disastrous mini-budget. I wonder if they somehow knew what was planned?"Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Another mark in the column for newspapers being nothing more than agenda-pushing propaganda. This even borders on being a mirror version of communism will work this time!
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Assuming that this thread isn't just about political bias, here's an item about relative sales of different music media which has been reported by various news outlets.
news.sky.com
Why it's biased:
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Vinyl sales overtake CDs for the first time in 35 years - and the best sellers might surprise you
Sales of vinyl have been growing for the past 15 years, reaching £116.8m this year.
No, vinyl did not outsell CDs in the UK in 2022 | Darko.Audio
And the BPI has the numbers to prove it.
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Interesting. Without qualification or context, to outsell is clearly referring to number of units sold. Generating more revenue or becoming a more valuable market is indeed quite different.
If Bugatti sell one car for €800,000 and Toyota sell five cars for €127,000, did Bugatti outsell Toyota? No.
If Bugatti sell one car for €800,000 and Toyota sell five cars for €127,000, did Bugatti outsell Toyota? No.
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That's what he said.
I'm sure that with those kind of unit prices plus the cost of the equipment involved, BPI would love to create some buzz around the vinyl market and get some more of that vinyl cash into their pockets.
But it's an audiophile rather than a mass market medium these days.
I'm sure that with those kind of unit prices plus the cost of the equipment involved, BPI would love to create some buzz around the vinyl market and get some more of that vinyl cash into their pockets.
But it's an audiophile rather than a mass market medium these days.
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Ok this isn't bias but it is infuriating. Look at this CNN headline on google news:
This bothers me a lot. We have no idea what the air supply on the sub is (there's a very real possibility that the sub had a catastrophic failure), and CNN knows this, but the temptation of establishing an arbitrary countdown timer for clicks was too impossible to resist. I bet some bag of ***** at the network wants to put a literal countdown timer on the page for the story.
This bothers me a lot. We have no idea what the air supply on the sub is (there's a very real possibility that the sub had a catastrophic failure), and CNN knows this, but the temptation of establishing an arbitrary countdown timer for clicks was too impossible to resist. I bet some bag of ***** at the network wants to put a literal countdown timer on the page for the story.
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They're not the only ones. The sub can hold 96 hours of oxygen, so I think everyone is going off of that and the article I saw quoted the cost guard or something similar.
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My point was that it was pure conjecture to even assume the sub was still intact and distasteful to put a countdown timer on those people's lives.
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