Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Martin Alvito
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This is because we do an incredibly lousy job of educating people with respect to sorting fact from opinion, and truth from fiction.
Our mass media exacerbates this by passing off opinion as news reporting, and people learn from them that this is how "successful" people frame arguments and persuade others.
The dunning kruger effect is definitely prevalent in these parts.
Martin Alvito
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The ten year account history suggests the former. The behavior is more consistent with the latter. I'll admit that I'm confused on this one.
This is quite a funny fact check.
TLDR
BBC interviewed a Covid patient in hospital in July.
The social medias started accusing him of being a crisis actor.
He later changes his Insta bio to call himself “An Academy award nominated crisis actor” to take the piss.
YouTube and socials are now going mad, 6 months later, with people posting vids of the original BBC clip and his Insta bio, saying ‘see, he’s a crisis actor. Scamdemic mate’.
TLDR
BBC interviewed a Covid patient in hospital in July.
The social medias started accusing him of being a crisis actor.
He later changes his Insta bio to call himself “An Academy award nominated crisis actor” to take the piss.
YouTube and socials are now going mad, 6 months later, with people posting vids of the original BBC clip and his Insta bio, saying ‘see, he’s a crisis actor. Scamdemic mate’.
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tsubaki
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Couldn’t agree more with the last bit, commentators (like Young or nearly all of the people at Fox now) are responsible for trashing a lot of peoples faith in the news and ruining their understanding of events.
Its all done deliberately as well, with the vast majority of them being obviously personally compromised and actively supporting a side and / or individuals (Cuomo for example). They shouldn’t be anywhere near mass media but instead they are an increasingly large slice of it (and a correspondingly large bit of politics too).
Martin Alvito
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It's gotten bad on both sides of the fence. CNN didn't really deserve the abuse when Trump was griefing Acosta. Now, they're increasingly adopting Fox's tactics and pushing an agenda. The BBC putting Dershowitz on as an "independent" expert to talk about a case where he's among the accused is another example.
I'm not sure if this is because it results in more clicks, they're that desperate to fill a 24-hour news cycle worth of content, they're getting some sort of side payments (favorable regulatory outcomes?), or if they've just accepted that bad drowns out good in today's media environment. There's a good chance that all of those things are going into the blender, to a greater or lesser extent.
tsubaki
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I think it’s probably a mix of all that - because commentary is much cheaper, easier to produce and legally far easier to defend than actual journalism is the firms that dominate the media will always go for it.
It really needs a firmer legal framework- not censorship, but those who consume that product should really be able to seek remedies when it causes harm.
Anders_Limpar
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No it doesn’t and no it isn’t equally as dangerous.
If I post that I think that the unvaccinated should be essentially removed from participating in society, it may irritate a few people reading, but won’t influence governments decision. If someone else posts unverified nonsense picked up from Facebook it may send another user down some rabbit hole and result in them making a decision on the vaccine based on incorrect information.
Personally I think a vaccine mandate would be a bad thing, particularly as most of the vaccine hesitate are from the margins of society anyway. I don’t think removing people from society, who already feel unheard, would be a good thing at all.
I respect anyones decision on what they want to with their own body, but what is becoming ever clearer is that vaccines and boosters are what will get us back to a normal society. The uptake is vital. Every person who makes the call not to take the vaccine affects this, so although I respect their decision, what I can’t respect is them justifying that decision by attempting to indoctrinate others into what is essentially an anti-science position.
I wonder who they actually asked and what percentage read the Daily Mail on a frequent basis.
carolinablue232
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The real question is how can Wednesday and Thursday both be the 30th? Are you stuck in a Dr. Strange time loop over there?
Martin Alvito
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*evil grin*
Strict liability standard for the consequences of opinion journalism. That would change the media in a hurry.
It'll never wash, though, at least in America. The media's lobby is pretty good, and it'll collapse on First Amendment grounds. Even if the courts imposed it (which is where it would have to happen), it would rightly be condemned as legislating from the bench.
efcfanwirral
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Was that poll taken in January?? How do people have such short memories for most things MPs or Boris Johnson say or promise, yet think captain Tom or Donald trump had much influence on the WORLD since about 6 days into the year...
carolinablue232
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Haha no not seriously. Saw the new Spider-Man last night and it was just what popped into my head. Seemingly failed bit of humor before our friend dhol comes back and tries to convince us all that vaccines don’t work again.
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