Going back some decades, a lot of newspapers were staffed with experienced journalists. And they had real editors. And the news cycle moved at a reasonable pace. People actually checked their facts and made sure they had real sources, and verified that what would be published in the morning edition was somewhat reliable.
It was never perfect (”Dewey Beats Truman”) but people had some trust in the news and they weren’t crazy to feel that way.
Television came along and, for awhile, followed a somewhat similar model. Things started moving faster, and propaganda started to be more central, but people still felt the News was worth listening to.
But we are now at the point where good looking people get on the idiot box to spew absolute crap and are shocked when people laugh at them for being stupid.
The News business is an utter joke. Fake News is part of it. But low quality people being stupid is another part of it.
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So, math is some difficult, obscure process reserved for geniuses? Is the public so put off by thoughts of quantities that is unable to handle basic comparisons?
This is not difficult! math is not for Einsteins!
They may use the excuse that math is difficult, but they don’t convince me.
“ will have a 15-20 percent mortality rate.”
A coworker of Fair’s said on Kennedy’s show (IIRC) that he had misspoke and had been trying to correct himself all day social media. Too bad so many actually get giddy over that number.
a million small children will die in America alone from abortion
“The very aged, however, do not come close to making up 20 percent of the population.”
Well then, if you do manage to live long enough, you will have a 20% chance of dying of it (until they find a cure). To keep things in perspective, the chances of dying, some day, from something, is pretty close to 100%.
Here is the up to the minute data
116,000 cases world wide. 105,000 mild or recovered.
4089 deaths
Average age of the dead, 80 years old.
Freepers stop being part of the problem. Drop the drama queen hysteria and the shameless lying and put your grown up pants on finally
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The talking head are simple nice looking people who can read a teleprompter. They understand nothing they read. Have you ever met a journalism major in college? They are obnoxious and just plain dumb.