There is a good book I read about this years ago (pre-9/11) called The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner. It went in depth into the different things that people are afraid of and how they are covered in the media vs what you are actually likely to die from. Definitely made me think a little differently about what I saw on the news for good or bad.
Re:Does the news reflect what we die from?
by LoSboccacc on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:09AM
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wait, no. even at an epistemological level news are data outliers, otherwise they'd be journals
while lots of outlets do are manipulative, it's the concept itself of news that shift the reporting bias here.
Re:Does the news reflect what we die from?
by randyrand on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:09PM
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news is mainly for entertainment.
But it's not. Sheeple/masses have been trained into that concept, but Edward Murrow is probably rolling in his grave at the fact. Have you spent time with reporters, specifically TV? The real newsies hate doing the fluff stories, or the must carry by their corporate owners. They want to just do the news. Of course, there are the ones that are just hoping to be the next entertainment star as you have accept news programming to be.
Perhaps not always conscious, because they need their jobs and their jobs are to fill a 24 hour cycle with news.
And nobody wants to hear about cancer and heart disease, it bums them out.