Money & Economics
- Thread starter bigredfish
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Gosh, I'm not wanting you to waste your time on that. I'm just pointing out that for every statistic driven conclusion, there seems to be an opposite one. I see both sides as agenda driven propaganda, which constitutes most of the statistic driven news reports and social media posts.
Doesn’t matter where the data is published or by whom. It’s either good data or not. Social media reporting is largely based on or taken from traditional reporters, TV, Web, Print. Believe it but not they all post more on social media than they do on their legacy platforms.
Those who rely on traditional legacy media are only getting a small percentage of the news each day. That’s why some (not pointing at you) prefer it, less thinking involved.
And I agree, I just want to use that as a test case to see if they are reporting the same data. My gut tells me those are two different metrics and both may be true.
Maybe it's a local thing because I've concluded the opposite. The local outlets by me often pull rumors and videos from social media and report them as news.
Fully agree. The legacy media isn't the powerful gatekeeper that it used to be.
Your gut IMO is correct. I don't know if either one is true or correct but that doesn't matter to the publishers. Their goal is to lead you to forming an opinion that immigrants are good for the economy, or they're bad for the economy. One chart shows how many immigrant households are on a welfare program, you're supposed to think immigrants bad for the economy. The other chart shows the amount of needs-based spending on an individual level, you're supposed to think immigrants good for the economy. Starting with the agenda, either side can find some stat or data claiming to show they are correct.
Local news is just that. Few stations outside of a handful of major markets do their own reporting on National/Intl issues.
I just think that people who denounce content from "social media" (define that exactly) as somehow being less valid than what they see on their favorite MSM outlet are living in the past and to a great degree with their head in the sand. For many its a form of protection of their worldview. If I dont read it or hear about it on INSERT FAV TV CHANNEL HERE it must not be true/valid.
Example there have been 4-5 major events this week that have large national and International implications, and barely a word out of MSM. Most people that only get their news from the idiot tube have no idea whats happening in the country or the world until the message has been massaged and the narrative has been decided..
The biggest of the big Media, Political, Financial and Industry giants post on "social media" all day most every day. Many use it as their primary communication tool. (Like say, I dunno, the White House) The majority of those being followed on X are conservative.
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As far as data and metrics and such, I find many who will cling to bad data and bad metrics and bad analysis because they dont like (typcially don't know) the messenger.
I'm certainly one who denounces social media content because I think most of it is agenda driven phony. Sure there's some ok posts, but how do you separate them from the junk without spending hours of research? In a way it's similar to when we have a windy day and I get hundreds of false IVS triggers from the cameras. There's a few valid ones in there but it takes a lot of work to weed out the phonies.