Hurricane Hysteria, Hype, and Histrionics
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American Thinker ^
| 10 Oct, 2022 | Brian C. Joondeph
Common sense logic is lost on the left. Media
cranks apparently never learned science or critical thinking during journalism school. Hurricane season is upon Southeastern America and that means hair-on-fire hysteria from the media and the political left. After Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest coastal Florida, we have heard nothing but hype from the corporate media, eager to connect every hurricane to catastrophic global warming, climate change, or whatever excuse they are currently using to usher in the Green New Deal and tyrannical top-down control of all aspects of our lives. Hurricanes are not new and are a staple of southern...
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Crisis in Iran: President Raisi’s hijab hype backfiring badly
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Asia times ^
| 29th September 2022 | Kourush Ziabri
Protests continue to roil Iran after the shocking death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by the morality police for an “improper hijab,” who is widely believed to have been beaten to death while in custody of the guards. Despite
a crackdown that has so far claimed at least 76 lives, Iranians are not ready to back away and are raising their voices, more strongly than ever, demanding the abolition of the vice squads and the annulment of the hijab mandate. No apologies have been offered by the authorities, no resignations extended, and the Ministry of Interior, tasked with...
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Major, Groundbreaking Increase in Hype in Grant Applications
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The Scientist ^
The language used in grant applications is becoming increasingly hyperbolic, a study published last week (August 25) in JAMA Network Open finds. The
study found that 130 research-hyping adjectives were used at a 1,378 percent higher frequency on average in funded application abstracts from 2020 than in those from 1985. “The findings in this study should serve to sensitize applicants, reviewers, and funding agencies to the increasing prevalence of subjective, promotional language in funding applications,” the authors write. The team, comprised of two linguists and a biomedical researcher, began by using software to annotate the parts of speech in more...
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Vanity but also news - Remember that Labor Day hurricane hype? See this from NOAA-NHC
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NOAA National Hurricane Center ^
| 8/29/22 | NOAA NHC
A week or so ago a FReeper fired up a post predicting a Labor Day weekend potent hurricane for the GOM (Gulf of Mexico). Well lo and behold there's a system out east that the NHC is forecasting/hyping to be near the US just in time. There's
also a 'disturbance' about the depart the west coast of Africa on the tails of the first one. Just in time for September, eh?
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LA County Chief Medical Officer Rejects COVID-19 ‘Media Hype’
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California Globe ^
| July 18, 2022 | Katy Grimes
Two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles and Southern California dismissed government officials’ statements about another wave of COVID-19 hitting the region and the United States as ‘media hype,’” The Epoch Times reported Sunday. This flies in the face of Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara
Ferrer’s announcement on Thursday that Los Angeles County has officially reached the “High” level of new COVID-19 cases and County hospitalization rates, giving the County two weeks to fall back below or else mandatory indoor masking mandates return, as the Globe reported.
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LA Hospital Officials Dismiss COVID-19 ‘Media Hype’ as Mask Mandate Looms
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epoch times ^
| 17 July A.D. 2022 | Jack Phillips
wo officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles and Southern California dismissed government officials’ statements about another wave of COVID-19 hitting the region and the United States as “media hype.” Los
Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer last week said that her county is now seeing a “high” level of COVID-19 transmission, suggesting that indoor mask mandates might be reimposed. But in a recent news conference on July 13, Brad Spellberg, the chief medical officer of Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, and epidemiologist Paul Holtom, said that there have been no...
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VIDEO: Liberals Denounce Objectivity to Hype "Solidarity Journalism"
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YouTube ^
| July 5, 2022 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEOThe University of Texas at Austin Center for Media Engagement had a conference in November 2021 in which the liberal participants openly supported ditching objectivity in order to hype "Solidarity Journalism" to promote "social justice." Here
are few highlights (or lowlights) of them basically declaring HOORAH FOR BIAS! Keep in mind this "Solidarity Journalism" is a leftist ideology that is now openly embraced by many, if not most, of the liberal media outlets and is being taught in Journalism schools around the country. This conference was hosted by the foremost proponent of "Solidarity Journalism," Anita Varma who is described as...
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New Yorker Uses 'Latinx' 21 Times to Hype Liberal Spanish Language Radio Network
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Newsbusters ^
| June 26, 2022 | P.J. Gladnick
Apparently New Yorker contributing writer Graciela Mochkofsky hasn't gotten the message yet, which has been repeated over and over again for the past few years, that a vast majority of the Spanish speaking community in the United States finds the incredibly awkward word "Latinx" to be both absurd as well as offensive.In
2020, Washington Post reporter Jose A. Del Real wrote that "Users of “Latinx” are accused of being out of touch with working-class Latino communities and of practicing linguistic imperialism on the Spanish language, which, like French and Italian, is grammatically gendered."Mochkofsky's Friday story, "A Different Kind of Bid...
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AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts blame on inflation; GOP gas hype
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AP ^
| Mar 15, 2022 | JOSH BOAK, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and DAVID KOENIG
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing political attacks over rising costs, President Joe Biden exaggerated his role in reducing the federal deficit and skirted responsibility by asserting that a flood of government spending into the economy has no impact at all on higher prices. It
actually does. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, went too far in pinning blame for surging gasoline prices on Biden..... THE FACTS: The Republican leaders of Congress are overstating Biden’s ability to influence energy prices and the impact of the canceled Keystone pipeline. Gasoline prices have been rising in tandem with oil prices since spring 2020 because demand has grown...
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Corrupt Media Predictably Hype Biden’s Dishonest SOTU Speech
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The Federalist.com ^
| March 2, 2022 | Jordan Boyd
Biden’s address was a disaster but the corrupt corporate media predictably gushed over it and tried to spin his terrible track record.resident Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was nothing short of a disaster but the corrupt corporate media predictably gushed over it and tried to spin his terrible track record.
Pundits gladly harped on Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene shouting during Biden’s speech but when it came to fact-checking the lies pouring out of the president’s mouth, most of the corrupt press fell short. The same corporate media outlets that eagerly fact-checked every minute of...
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Lost Almost $500 Million to Biden War Hype: ‘We Don’t Need This Panic’
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Breitbart ^
| 28 Jan 2022 | FRANCES MARTEL
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned international corporate media and world leaders like President Joe Biden for publicly predicting imminent war with Russia on Friday, stating that the panic caused by these statements cost Ukraine 12.5 billion hryvnia (about $437 million) in foreign investment. Zelensky
spent nearly an hour and a half with reporters at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday following what has become a controversial phone conversation with President Biden on Thursday night. While the official readouts from both Washington and Kyiv depicted the call as productive and friendly, a CNN report based on anonymous sources described the...
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One year later, no one charged with sedition in Capitol riot, despite initial DOJ hype
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Washington Examiner ^
| January 5, 2022 | Jerry Dunleavy
"One year after the Capitol riot, no one has been charged with sedition or insurrection, despite initial Justice Department claims that such charges were likely and former President Donald Trump being impeached for allegedly inciting an insurrection. Attorney
General Merrick Garland said in a Wednesday speech ahead of the riot’s anniversary that more than 725 defendants have been arrested. However, none of the charges have been for sedition or insurrection. ..."
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Marjorie Taylor Greene used a racial slur to hype the diversity of the MAGA movement
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Business Insider ^
| 12/20/21 | Tom Porter
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia attracted criticism for using a term widely seen as a racial slur in boasting of the racial diversity those who support former President Donald Trump. Greene, an outspoken Republican champion of Trump, made the comments at the weekend conference of the conservative Turning Point USA youth
movement. "When I walked in yesterday, I was like, what kind of people come here?" Greene said. "So I'm walking around and seeing some good people, and I see white people, Black people, brown people, yellow people."
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Vast Majority of Americans Won't Let COVID Hype and Warnings Interfere With Holiday Plans
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Pjmedia ^
| 12/19/2021 | A.J. Kaufman
I’ve been on the road across several states since Dec. 4. For
the most part, life is the most normal it’s been in the past 18 months in most locales. It’s clear that almost no one is downscaling any plans for a second straight Christmas due to paranoia or misinformation. A new national poll confirms this. It shows the majority of vaccinated Americans — 73% — will keep plans to attend in-person holiday events in the coming weeks, even as bureaucrats advise people to take extra precautions amid “surging” COVID-19 cases. An even higher proportion of the unvaccinated, more than...
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South African Doctor Who Discovered the Omicron Variant Says the 'Hype' and Fearmongering Is Unwarranted
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Red State ^
| 11/29/2021 | Jeff Charles
Dr. Angelique Coetzee, board chairperson of the South Africa Medical Association (SAMA)The hard left might have a difficult time using the newly-discovered Omicron variant for fearmongering purposes. Shortly
after the discovery of the COVID-19 variant, at least one top medical professional is cautioning against hyping up the severity of the mutation.Dr. Angelique Coetzee, National Chair of the South African Medical Association, and also one of those who discovered the Omicron variant early on, called the US’s travel bans “hasty,” as we reported Saturday. Then she told Reuters Sunday that “the hype” that’s been concocted about the variant is not warranted....
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Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Slams 'Hype,' Travel Bans
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NEWSMAX ^
| November 29, 2021 | Nick Koutsobinas
National Chair of the South African Medical Association, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who made an early discovery of the Omicron variant amongst patients, says "the hype" that's been created surrounding the variant is unwarranted. According
to Reuters, "the variant was detected and announced by South Africa's National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Nov. 25 from samples taken from a laboratory from Nov. 14 to Nov. 16." Coetzee told Reuters that in one of the "biggest hospitals" in her "area" and country of South Africa, there is only one patient who is COVID-positive on ventilation, and there has been no confirmation,...
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3D-printed steak, anyone? I taste test this ‘gamechanging’ meat mimic
Marco Pierre White is championing Redefine Meat’s products, but do they live up to the hype?
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guardian ^
Across four major cities – London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Tel Aviv – a new meat was born, containing precisely no animal. The
London champion of the company, Redefine Meat, is the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White. At Mr White’s in Leicester Square, chefs, investors and barbecue and burger connoisseurs – as well as former winners of MasterChef – gathered to taste it. The tone of the event was set by the offering of a pipette of “blood” – “Doesn’t it taste like blood, though?” asked an excited waiter. Well, yes. But memo from the world of carnivore: blood is more...
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Analysis: From zero to $12 bln; investors chase Trump stock hype
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Reuters ^
| 10/25/2021 | Krystal Hu and Anirban Sen
Donald Trump has united some of his supporters and detractors in buying shares in his new company and hoping to score a big win. Anthony
Nguyen, a 49-year-old software consultant from Austin, Texas, is a Republican who refused to vote for the former U.S. president in last year's election. Last week he joined the millions of online day traders who drove up the value of the company that will house Trump's new social media venture to almost $12 billion. The company's app has yet to be rolled out even on a trial basis, and Nguyen said he invested because he...
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Why Hype Merck's Coronavirus Drug, Molnupiravir But Dismiss Ivermectin?
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RCM ^
| 10/15/2021 | Dr. Pierre Kory
In our fight against a global pandemic, we need all the weapons we can get. Merck’s
announcement that it’s developing an antiviral pill to treat COVID is therefore welcome news. If molnupiravir is as effective as the drug maker claims, this early treatment option should make a big difference.But in the hype over Merck’s new pill, we’re losing sight of the fact that we already have an effective, affordable treatment for COVID that is helping to control the pandemic in many regions of the world—ivermectin. I ask those urging the Food and Drug Administration to rush molnupiravir through the approval...
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Despite Media Hype, This Year’s Wildfires Don’t Top One You’ve Never Heard Of
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Townhall.com ^
| October 8, 2021 | William D. Balgord
Wildfires in Oregon, California, and Washington State this summer made for spectacular headlines. The
media took their lead in press releases issued from the respective state capitals to blame drought—allegedly induced by man-caused climate change—for what they called the worst fires in history. But was climate change really the underlying cause? And were the fires really the worst in history? A bit of real history can be enlightening. Peshtigo is today a small city in northeastern Wisconsin, but 150 years ago it was the site of the largest and deadliest single wildfire in North American history. On October 8, 1871,...
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