Ive tried to explain to my kids that, done right, news is what isn't going on in the world. -I have trouble with the phrasing.
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Very, extremely, damn true. I hope this becomes the tweet of the week.
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Yet in doing so can exacerbate, shape, or even start trends.
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When watching events there's signal and there's noise. Most news seems to filter out the signal.
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News providers know they are presenting anomalies: they're just framing the anomaly to look like "the canary in a coal mine". As risk averse humans, we can't help but keep an eye out for these warnings.
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Anomalies are trending at the moment.
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Yes! Events make the news for being extraordinary, not typical. This is why we live in a low-grade panic despite life getting better -- and safer -- all the time.
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you rarely see any comparison of 'current level' of X with long-term historical average X news media obscures/downplays context to make random data point sound controversial+surprising. throw in vague quote from cherry-picked 'expert' suggesting ominous implications....

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A single news item is a data point, sometimes an outlier. However, a series of news items could and do point to patterns and trends.
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