Don't get me wrong... I like Breitbart. They tell stories that MSM won't.
But they are no different from the uber leftist socialist journalists, in reality. Trying to sell clicks and get eyeballs and maximize their bottom line.
Here's the 'gem' that caught my eye this morning:
www.breitbart.com
Ok folks... it's Indonesia. They are a nation of 250 million spread over thousands of islands... Their GNP per capita is somthing like $4500. Most of that going to a tiny fraction of the population... median household income is something like $800 a year. 13000 children are born a day and of those... 220 will die as infants. They are losing 9 kids an hour from disease and poor conditions.
Don't even get started on rampant malaria, smallpox, cancer, industrial accidents, chemical exposure, getting eaten by sharks, ringworm, VD and Alec Baldwin (ok, I made that last one up)
But WTF... it's FRONT PAGE news in America that death rate from a stupid volcano... has risen to 13... in the past several days. 13. That's 80 minutes of infant mortality alone.
Infant mortality, however, is not clickbait. If it bleeds it leads? Dirty Laundry? Terror news (because the next volcano might be under Atlanta...) Fear porn? Those scary volcanoes.
When you look at this crap, remember it' to entertain you. Terrify you. Manipulate you. And more importantly... sell your eyeballs to advertisers because you are so obsessed with the shiny volcano story that you forget that it's irrelevant. Unless you live in Cody, Wyoming. They you're already toast.
Just my rant for the morning.
Sirhr
But they are no different from the uber leftist socialist journalists, in reality. Trying to sell clicks and get eyeballs and maximize their bottom line.
Here's the 'gem' that caught my eye this morning:
Indonesia volcano death toll rises to 13 - Breitbart
Disaster officials in Indonesia raised the death toll in the eruption of Mount Semeru to 13 on Sunday, as rescuers working through the night freed as many
www.breitbart.com Ok folks... it's Indonesia. They are a nation of 250 million spread over thousands of islands... Their GNP per capita is somthing like $4500. Most of that going to a tiny fraction of the population... median household income is something like $800 a year. 13000 children are born a day and of those... 220 will die as infants. They are losing 9 kids an hour from disease and poor conditions.
Don't even get started on rampant malaria, smallpox, cancer, industrial accidents, chemical exposure, getting eaten by sharks, ringworm, VD and Alec Baldwin (ok, I made that last one up)
But WTF... it's FRONT PAGE news in America that death rate from a stupid volcano... has risen to 13... in the past several days. 13. That's 80 minutes of infant mortality alone.
Infant mortality, however, is not clickbait. If it bleeds it leads? Dirty Laundry? Terror news (because the next volcano might be under Atlanta...) Fear porn? Those scary volcanoes.
When you look at this crap, remember it' to entertain you. Terrify you. Manipulate you. And more importantly... sell your eyeballs to advertisers because you are so obsessed with the shiny volcano story that you forget that it's irrelevant. Unless you live in Cody, Wyoming. They you're already toast.
Just my rant for the morning.
Sirhr
