“If you look at that Reuters data and extrapolate it out, we can estimate that roughly 100 million American adults are not getting their news needs met,” Ripley said.
The way that we have designed our new communications infrastructure is to be absolutely relentless,” she said. “If I read one story about somebody being made ill or dying, possibly because they had to have a Covid vaccine, I get 50 stories about people dying from every single news outlet in the world. So the overwhelming impression you could get is that something bad was happening with vaccines even though it wasn’t. And even though every single story was was more or less accurate, it was only representing a tiny bit of what was happening in the in the real world.
“If you look at that Reuters data and extrapolate it out, we can estimate that roughly 100 million American adults are not getting their news needs met,” Ripley said.
The way that we have designed our new communications infrastructure is to be absolutely relentless,” she said. “If I read one story about somebody being made ill or dying, possibly because they had to have a Covid vaccine, I get 50 stories about people dying from every single news outlet in the world. So the overwhelming impression you could get is that something bad was happening with vaccines even though it wasn’t. And even though every single story was was more or less accurate, it was only representing a tiny bit of what was happening in the in the real world.
Sauce (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/16/americans-avoid-news-reuters-survey)
Reuters is so... ick.
Take part of the quote above: "[...] not getting their news needs met"
What they mean: people aren't consuming our blatant propaganda like they used to.
It's an almost true article, but they had to make it about C19, didn't they? "[M]ore or less accurate" my foot.
They best they can do is keep the fence sitters on the fence. Most of this is just trying to slow the bleeding.