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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
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Yup. Now read the frequency of those cases. The stories themselves admit the instances are exceedingly rare, but you have to read on to catch that — far beyond what the average news consumer would take the time to digest.
The news is doing flips to find the scariest outliers and pimp those anecdotes as if they’re common. They’ve a credulous public, and that shit sells.
WaPo is basically a hysteria rag. I follow it in my feed and read the story you cite. It’s a rare occurrence played up as statistically common.
WaPo is a shithole if of clickbait headlines, and stories they admit are wrong but never remove from the search engines. They’re a dressed up Fox News.
