Hysteria...good song by Muse too but anyway, this is the Schaumburg Costco water & paper products section. My oldest manages the Tire department, so he's rarely in the main warehouse and walked past tonight thinking "wtf is going on here?" It's people stocking up for the apocalypse :roll: :roll: :roll:
Media created mass Hysteria
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It's simply a typo Ron. It should have been stated as the daily Covid infection rate broke 7,000, not death rate. They started breaking 7,000 on the 19th. Not everything is the media trying to deliberately mislead people with fake news.RonG said:I guess Sweden is not doing too well with their 'let it rip' experiment and is paying the price now.
My eyes bugged out with the 7,000 :shock: :shock: figure. How could a tiny country have daily deaths 7X higher than the USA?? Surely, they'll all be dead within the next month.Bloomberg News said:I was getting ready to go and claim some nice homes and land in Sweden since there would be no occupants of anything there, nor anyone to stop me. :idea: :thumbup:
I researched and found that the real stats are that Sweden has lost a total of 6,400 since the pandemic started. Not sure, why fake-news Bloomberg news is reporting the rates are now 7,000 a day. :crazy: If it's not deliberate lies, it's reporting sloppier than JB Prixter in an all-you-can-eat ribs joint. Stupid fake news.
SmalliesNEyes said:It's simply a typo Ron. It should have been stated as the daily Covid infection rate broke 7,000, not death rate. They started breaking 7,000 on the 19th. Not everything is the media trying to deliberately mislead people with fake news.RonG said:I guess Sweden is not doing too well with their 'let it rip' experiment and is paying the price now.
Article says case rate.Bloomberg News said:
My eyes bugged out with the 7,000 :shock: :shock: figure. How could a tiny country have daily deaths 7X higher than the USA?? Surely, they'll all be dead within the next month.
I researched and found that the real stats are that Sweden has lost a total of 6,400 since the pandemic started. Not sure, why fake-news Bloomberg news is reporting the rates are now 7,000 a day. :crazy: If it's not deliberate lies, it's reporting sloppier than JB Prixter in an all-you-can-eat ribs joint. Stupid fake news.
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A typo is spelling a word wrong, transposing something, adding one too many zeros. No, that's why I referred to it as 'slop' reporting. It wasn't a typo. It was a professional journalist having no clue on what they are reporting. BTW, I see the story has been updated now over 4 times, yet they leave that stand as the writer doesn't know what a positive test total is from a daily death total.
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I'll take your word for it. Reporting is in the toilet and I was starting to think there were no more editors to review what goes to print or air. Maybe the Trib is using Grammerly or some other spell checker software in lieu of a real editor. 'Probably using Alexa to gather it's news to publish.Rambler said:
Hiring a journalist or reporter now is more on merit of their bias than on any education, skills or experience.
**update: Half hour ago, they posted a correction saying they were wrong and shouldn't have said '7000 daily deaths'. Now they updated that and have taken out any mention of them screwing up. There is a lot of deliberate hit-and-run journalism. They post lies, slander and mistruths and only delete it or post a correction several days later when no one will ever see it. But in the meantime the damage is done just like the amount of time I've wasted on this today. :thumbdown:
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It's been going on for years Ron. Saw it years ago when I was getting my undergrad the malcontents writing editorials for the school newspaper. We'd all laugh at how out of touch they were and ham handed they were in pushing their dogma as we ate in the dormatory cafeteria. Then I'd hear snarky comments from pinhead writers I worked with for a local paper with a summer job as a teen, detached from reality. A cloistered and incaucated bunch to be sure.RonG said:
Now we have to de-program the 8yo were raising with all the nonsense they pump into her head and ask her to use critical reasoning. Some day she's going to wave Mao's little red book in front of us.
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I read all the local online rags when the state updates their numbers at 1p everyday. They do their best to illicit fear and downplay anything that does not illicit fear. It may be political, but I think the media mostly goes for the shock treatment to get clicks. If a headline and first paragraph grips a reader more then a competitors, they are rewarded with more clicks and loyalty. I miss me some Dan Rather. I wonder what the media is going to focus on when Trump is out of office and corornavirus is in the rear view mirror.
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Dan Rather is best when he's not entrusted with any news. He is the clown who pushed forged documents in his effort to throw a US presidential election. The scandal was ranked #3 on the Ten biggest TV blunders and he got booted. The Godfather of intentional fake news. He was Charles Manson and the news outlets are now filled with his followers.
His 'Big Interview' show where he interviews classic rock and other artists is excellent. I've got it set to auto-record each episode when they air and watch them while I work out. For this show he actually is quite knowledgeable on his interviewees, doing good pre-taping research. He's well-engaged and puts together a good show.
His 'Big Interview' show where he interviews classic rock and other artists is excellent. I've got it set to auto-record each episode when they air and watch them while I work out. For this show he actually is quite knowledgeable on his interviewees, doing good pre-taping research. He's well-engaged and puts together a good show.
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Gentlemen, "If it bleeds it leads" has been the rule of journalism for over a century. Check out the coverage of the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 - the lead-up to the Spanish-American War. Sensationalism sells!FishinMatt said:
And Matt - I've been wondering the same. But I'm pretty sure the Trumpster will continue to give Fox, MSNBC and CNN plenty of fodder for the next few years.
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Trump isnt going anywhere. CNN, MSNBC and even Fox is "fake news" now (how dare they call Biden president-elect) :roll: With OAN and Newsmax feeding his devout followers the "news" they want to hear, he'll be rolling in the PAC dough. 75% of his sham recount donations are going to his PAC. he'll be holding rallies for at least the next two years when he's not too busy golfing at Maralago. I doubt he'll run again in 2024 but he'll probably hand pick lyin Ted or little Marco as the next nominee
In all honesty I didn't watch him on CBS, as I have not watched television on a regular basis in 25 years. But I remember that scandal. He ended up apologizing, then he got fired then he sued twice claiming that CBS scapegoated him, nothing became of those suits. That ended a really, really long career with CBS.RonG said:
At the end of the day, when it came to military service GWB was no GHWB. He was certainly no John McCain. I would have to research it, but I think there were documents that turned out to be illegitimate, but it was never proven that the info in them was fake.
At that point in time the US was chest deep in Iraq and Afghanistan and I remember almost voting for Bush, because I didn't see the next 4 years looking so bright, and I felt the Republicans should have to ride that one out. boy was I right about that.
I like DR now, basically for reasons you said, but most of all because among others he trolls Trump on Twitter, which I find highly humorous. He is damn funny when he wants to be.
With regard to GW, i spent pretty much the better part of his presidency despising him (which is an understatement), I have to say he really conducted himself with class afterwards and I specifically remember as Obama entered office he said, I think this is pretty much a quote " I hope he can fix it". I read that Obama and GHW were pretty good friends and he- Obama would seek counsel from him regularly.
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IDK, Lyin Ted's new beard has reduced his Jay Cutler-esque jerk face factor.KankRat said:
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If you have a half hour to spare give this a look.
https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v3/strea ... 2eb/560976
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Some info on the speaker in the video.
https://www.aier.org/article/an-educati ... of-pfizer/
https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v3/strea ... 2eb/560976
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Some info on the speaker in the video.
https://www.aier.org/article/an-educati ... of-pfizer/
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30 currently hospitalized in the Ontonagon, U.P. hospital from Covid. I doubt if they even have that many beds and rooms. 'Was a town of 1000 but now with the shipyard closed, the paper mill closed and the copper mine closed I doubt if there's 500 folks left. That's a real bad proportion of very sick people. :shock:
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