Comments on: Media ADHD

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:43:56 +0000

Ebola more dangerous than imagined:

By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:40:00 +0000

Yeah I was thinking about that. One factor may have been that nobody stopped traveling on planes. This crisis was put to a crowd-sourcing test and the crowd analyzed the data and let forth with a collective “meh.” So what reporter is gonna keep beating this story when you’ve got NO American cases, NO intercontinental transmission and NO-body who is American or European giving a goddamn?

I was a reporter for several years in my 20s. The big lesson I learned is that reporters are fundamentally bad at math, statistics, probabilities, finance and business. (So if you want to advance in journalism the clear path is through the business desk.) It doesn’t surprise me at all that they were whipping this story for a while and then dropped it when the real-world feedback came back to them that … nobody cared and it was a non-story.

Same principle as these Arctic ice-cap scares and all that bullshit. These people can’t ADD. They don’t understand probabilities, reversion to the mean, any of that stuff. So they are putty in the hands of sophists like Al Gore and his global-warming ilk.

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:35:16 +0000

OK, but how did the media figure that out? Brains and logic aren’t their thing. Is it simply hysteria fatigue? Have to move on to something novel for awhile?

By: Handle

Handle — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:41:00 +0000

If it’s not new, and if it can’t be used to make Obama look good or Republicans look bad, it’s not news.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:28:18 +0000

If there is any one conspiracy theory that makes sense, it’s the media. The seamless coordination with which they drum up some stories and then kill them in unison tells you that this is no decentralized hivemind of Puritan zealots. Somebody is passing commands and they are being enforced in military fashion.

By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:09:17 +0000

The big change is that people sat down and figured out the science: You can’t catch the bitch unless somebody barfs on you or you eat monkeys. So once it became clear it was non-contagious for people riding airplanes, it became a non-story. I figured that out after about 40 minutes of digging one night when the airline stocks were getting killed — and I don’t know shit about science. This was never a real story in the first place.

By: vxxc2014

vxxc2014 — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:42:21 +0000

Bingo. Good Catch. Ebola has been contained where it counts, the Narrative.

By: peter connor

peter connor — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:58:09 +0000

@Mark Yuray Right after Obama appointed an ebola “czar” who is actually a political operative…

By: Lord Auch

Lord Auch — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:29:12 +0000

Counter-narrative: this seemed deliciously timed to highlight Obama’s incompetence in the recent US elections. As much as the Narrative propels forward the Democrat kith and kin, this story seems to have been a detriment to them and their’s.

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Media ADHD | Reaction Times — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:58:04 +0000

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