Never trust media on counts.
Went to some boat rallies that had many thousands of people and hundreds of boat. Highly impressive turnout.
Media reports made it out that barely anyone showed up.
Went to some boat rallies that had many thousands of people and hundreds of boat. Highly impressive turnout.
Media reports made it out that barely anyone showed up.
There absolutely are reporters that do this by always saying things like "it feels like... " Etc.
It's however notoriously hard to estimate these numbers and participants generally overestimate the amount by several orders of magnitude.
That’s like believing Facebook has your best interest in mind.
Figure out what a group wants to understand how they are spinning story.
That was not my take on treeman's comment. They didn't say distrust everyone, but that motives are usually far from altruistic and more selfish in nature. That people have selfish reasons for doing what they do is worth recognizing. A corporation offering you something most likely does not have your best interests in mind, but their bottom line.
Don’t get your updates on X from someone trying to sell you some version of X. Get it from someone who has to explain X before selling you on Y.
I'm spending a great deal of time figuring out how to make a game of "spot the hidden subtext" with kiddos. Just to make them hellions down the road.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” – Michael Crichton (1942-2008)