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I think as journalists write more and more articles that are catastrophising, clickbait-laden rubbish, they will find fewer and fewer people willing to talk to

I think as journalists write more and more articles that are catastrophising, clickbait-laden rubbish, they will find fewer and fewer people willing to talk to them. This is a hole they dug for themselves.

cryptica 7y ago
As far as I can see, there are no financial interests behind this article (in fact, all the financial interests are against it because it's criticising the lucrative medical system). Maybe it's slightly over dramatic but at least it seems pure in its intentions and it's good to see that the writer feels strongly about the topic. This is real journalism and we need more of these articles. What we need fewer of are articles which promote financial interests and drive wealth centralization. These are abundant and nobody seems to be pointing those out.
- RappingBoomer 7y ago
  big pharma wants more laws from congress to prevent americans from using the web to buy the cheap antibiotics they need from overseas...these hype articles manufacture consent for the laws big pharma wants and will get once they pay off congress...it's a 2 stage process...first they lay a propaganda foundation--media articles that hype some crisis...and then they pay off congress to get the laws that force the consumer to do (or not do) things that will make the big corporations richer...I am old and have been seeing this stuff for decades now...i talk about it frequently online too, but I am usually censored by forums that probably get $$ from business lobbies
kebman 7y ago
Sad to say, this is not clickbait. Microbes that are becoming resistant due to overuse of antibiotics is a serious problem, especially in countries that repress such information, or where the use of antibiotics is less firmly regulated. I'm sure most people are aware that Eastern Europe, and especially Romania and Bulgaria has a rampant problem with resistent microbæ, but I was surprised to see that for instance Italy is almost equally as bad.
cm2187 7y ago
I am not sure about talking to them. But I do feel a “it’s the end of the world” fatigue. I understand the economic need to generate traffic, but we are told pretty much daily that we are at risk of some sort of deadly peril that will kill us all, whether it is ebola, this fungus, the swine flu, the bird flu, pollution poisoning, global warming, mad cow disease, etc etc. I find myself in the position to dismiss automatically all these claims as bullshit, but it may be that one day they may get one right. There is a cost to crying wolf.
- mschuster91 7y ago
  > I understand the economic need to generate traffic, but we are told pretty much daily that we are at risk of some sort of deadly peril that will kill us all, whether it is ebola, this fungus, the swine flu, the bird flu, pollution poisoning, global warming, mad cow disease, etc etc. The problem is that we as societies haven't been doing much over the last decades and shit is culminating in the next maybe 10-30 years.

cryptica 7y ago

As far as I can see, there are no financial interests behind this article (in fact, all the financial interests are against it because it's criticising the lucrative medical system). Maybe it's slightly over dramatic but at least it seems pure in its intentions and it's good to see that the writer feels strongly about the topic. This is real journalism and we need more of these articles. What we need fewer of are articles which promote financial interests and drive wealth centralization. These are abundant and nobody seems to be pointing those out.

RappingBoomer 7y ago
big pharma wants more laws from congress to prevent americans from using the web to buy the cheap antibiotics they need from overseas...these hype articles manufacture consent for the laws big pharma wants and will get once they pay off congress...it's a 2 stage process...first they lay a propaganda foundation--media articles that hype some crisis...and then they pay off congress to get the laws that force the consumer to do (or not do) things that will make the big corporations richer...I am old and have been seeing this stuff for decades now...i talk about it frequently online too, but I am usually censored by forums that probably get $$ from business lobbies

kebman 7y ago

Sad to say, this is not clickbait. Microbes that are becoming resistant due to overuse of antibiotics is a serious problem, especially in countries that repress such information, or where the use of antibiotics is less firmly regulated. I'm sure most people are aware that Eastern Europe, and especially Romania and Bulgaria has a rampant problem with resistent microbæ, but I was surprised to see that for instance Italy is almost equally as bad.

cm2187 7y ago

I am not sure about talking to them. But I do feel a “it’s the end of the world” fatigue. I understand the economic need to generate traffic, but we are told pretty much daily that we are at risk of some sort of deadly peril that will kill us all, whether it is ebola, this fungus, the swine flu, the bird flu, pollution poisoning, global warming, mad cow disease, etc etc. I find myself in the position to dismiss automatically all these claims as bullshit, but it may be that one day they may get one right. There is a cost to crying wolf.

mschuster91 7y ago
> I understand the economic need to generate traffic, but we are told pretty much daily that we are at risk of some sort of deadly peril that will kill us all, whether it is ebola, this fungus, the swine flu, the bird flu, pollution poisoning, global warming, mad cow disease, etc etc. The problem is that we as societies haven't been doing much over the last decades and shit is culminating in the next maybe 10-30 years.