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Yeah, NPR has been driving me nuts with this crap. There seem to be 0 news sources available that can’t help but slip some alarmist flavor text in. I can’t list

by tjr225 4y ago

Yeah, NPR has been driving me nuts with this crap. There seem to be 0 news sources available that can’t help but slip some alarmist flavor text in. I can’t listen to it anymore.

labster 4y ago
That’s just normal news flavor text, like “breaking news” or “storm watch”. There’s no semantic meaning, the words just boost engagement metrics. Which would you click first? “Clock sales dip, wristwatches gain” or “Breaking News: storm watches PUMMEL bedside clock sales, is it cause for alarm?”
- FeepingCreature 4y ago
  By now, the first.
- somenameforme 4y ago
  Which would you click? There's this weird phenomena in society where we always attribute different actions than those we'd take to the rest of society, and I think it drives a lot of this stupidity. There was certainly a time that yellow journalism drove interest, but that's because it was more the exception than the rule, which enabled it to exploit naivete more effectively. Now that everything is a historic alarming unprecedented catastrophic dangerous event (or in the equal but opposite direction an amazing groundbreaking miracle cure for cancer), I mostly just yawn and look for the next link. And I've no reason to believe that my tolerance for hyperbole (to describe what's happening kindly) is substantially less than the rest of society. As some sort of quantitative evidence for my argument, I'd also point to the trust in media polling [1]. There is only 1 "media" outlet that more than 50% of Americans rate as at least "somewhat trustworthy" - The Weather Channel. That absolutely all trust has collapsed leads me to believe most people know all of this stuff is, at best, yellow journalism. [1] - https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/04/05/trust-media-2022-where-americans-get-news-poll https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
  - labster 4y ago
    I always click the headlines with the best puns. And as a meteorologist, I’m encouraged by the trust in the Weather Channel. When I was a kid everyone would say how bad forecasts were, but we’ve really gotten better at the 5-10 day forecasts in the last couple decades. I’m glad to see the public has noticed!
- mushbino 4y ago
  That's not normal news, that's BECOME normal news. It's become more difficult to find informative, educational news without an agenda or tabloid spin.
TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> There seem to be 0 news sources Try https://join1440.com/ https://join1440.com/ You won’t regret it.

by tjr225 4y ago

Yeah, NPR has been driving me nuts with this crap. There seem to be 0 news sources available that can’t help but slip some alarmist flavor text in. I can’t listen to it anymore.

labster 4y ago

That’s just normal news flavor text, like “breaking news” or “storm watch”. There’s no semantic meaning, the words just boost engagement metrics. Which would you click first? “Clock sales dip, wristwatches gain” or “Breaking News: storm watches PUMMEL bedside clock sales, is it cause for alarm?”

FeepingCreature 4y ago
By now, the first.
somenameforme 4y ago
Which would you click? There's this weird phenomena in society where we always attribute different actions than those we'd take to the rest of society, and I think it drives a lot of this stupidity. There was certainly a time that yellow journalism drove interest, but that's because it was more the exception than the rule, which enabled it to exploit naivete more effectively. Now that everything is a historic alarming unprecedented catastrophic dangerous event (or in the equal but opposite direction an amazing groundbreaking miracle cure for cancer), I mostly just yawn and look for the next link. And I've no reason to believe that my tolerance for hyperbole (to describe what's happening kindly) is substantially less than the rest of society. As some sort of quantitative evidence for my argument, I'd also point to the trust in media polling [1]. There is only 1 "media" outlet that more than 50% of Americans rate as at least "somewhat trustworthy" - The Weather Channel. That absolutely all trust has collapsed leads me to believe most people know all of this stuff is, at best, yellow journalism. [1] - https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/04/05/trust-media-2022-where-americans-get-news-poll https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
- labster 4y ago
  I always click the headlines with the best puns. And as a meteorologist, I’m encouraged by the trust in the Weather Channel. When I was a kid everyone would say how bad forecasts were, but we’ve really gotten better at the 5-10 day forecasts in the last couple decades. I’m glad to see the public has noticed!
mushbino 4y ago
That's not normal news, that's BECOME normal news. It's become more difficult to find informative, educational news without an agenda or tabloid spin.

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago

> There seem to be 0 news sources Try https://join1440.com/ https://join1440.com/ You won’t regret it.