“New laws may mean the end of the Salmon industry”
“New findings may mean the end of arterial sclerosis”
“Peace talks in Iran could end inflation for good”
Then reading people in the comments arguing about why something will or won’t happen… When it’s all just hypothetical. I don’t think hypotheticals are news.
ugh yeah the “maybe news” are annoying. i mean, it’s good that reporters report about things before they happen, i.e. new laws that parlament could pass, because otherwise people might get outraged against the law after it had passed, at which point it is useless. because it can’t be changed anymore.
but what i do hate is when newspapers refuse to give actual numbers or any sort of clarity. such as this chemical may increase your [disease] risk and then you look it up (have to search for an actual scientific publication) and the risk increase is by 0.000001% percent … so, pretty much useless. could be a measurement error. but then they leave out any reporting on actually big things, such as tax laws. which could benefit millions of people quite substantially. i feel like it’s all a distraction scheme to keep people occupied with insignificant/unimportant things. to distract from economic literacy, because that requires an actual understanding of scale and proportionality and numbers.
I hate the “maybe news”.
“New laws may mean the end of the Salmon industry”
“New findings may mean the end of arterial sclerosis”
“Peace talks in Iran could end inflation for good”
Then reading people in the comments arguing about why something will or won’t happen… When it’s all just hypothetical. I don’t think hypotheticals are news.
ugh yeah the “maybe news” are annoying. i mean, it’s good that reporters report about things before they happen, i.e. new laws that parlament could pass, because otherwise people might get outraged against the law after it had passed, at which point it is useless. because it can’t be changed anymore.
but what i do hate is when newspapers refuse to give actual numbers or any sort of clarity. such as this chemical may increase your [disease] risk and then you look it up (have to search for an actual scientific publication) and the risk increase is by 0.000001% percent … so, pretty much useless. could be a measurement error. but then they leave out any reporting on actually big things, such as tax laws. which could benefit millions of people quite substantially. i feel like it’s all a distraction scheme to keep people occupied with insignificant/unimportant things. to distract from economic literacy, because that requires an actual understanding of scale and proportionality and numbers.