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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
This thread makes me wonder whatever happened to Acid Rain?
I remembering being a kid in the Maritimes and hearing how Acid Rain from the US Northeast was blowing up to disintegrate us all.
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Or the Hantavirus. Or Ebola. Or West Nile. Or Monkeypox. Or, or, or, or. Every few months seems like a new theme; one media outlet runs with a theme, then they all do. And as media has gotten smaller, the problem has gotten more widespread. And to clarify, I'm not talking about hard news, I'm talking about the presentation of this news by media.
I think the media response to, well,
everything lately--the hyperbole, the fear, and stigmatization--has unwittingly played a large role in fostering the misinformation zealotry and polarization seen today.
*I have no data to back up anything I've just said, and you're welcome to assume I'm blowing smoke up your arse. I very well could be.