Or is it a new phenomenon?

You can’t trust anything you read online now, especially anything relating to the economy

BRB every headline has to use the phrase “soaring” or “plummets” even if the change is tiny or even less than historical norm

BRB every headline uses phrases like “experts are sounding the alarm as…” even if that “expert” is just some rando or even doesn’t exist at all

BRB two articles from the same website will contradict one another that were written a week apart

BRB article covers every scenario so it can’t be wrong. “Analysts say the economy could be in a flat year for 2023, but could also improve or decline based on economic conditions”



Literally everything online now is all this goddam bullchit trash,m. Doesn’t matter if you read it from CNN, Reuters, fox. You name it, it all follows this formulaic garbage

Zerohedge crew. BRB daily doom porn since like 2013.

The fun part is, now that we have a Fed tightening cycle for the first time in 15 years, chit really IS starting to break down and go doom mode. It's fun.

I feel like I’m at the point where if something doesn’t happen right in front of my eyes I’m not believing it

Example Headline: “state of Missouri in shock and panic and wildfire engulfs state”
Reality: One person was burning leaves in their backyard

I’m not reading or listening to any more news or economic material. Srs

Standards of journalism have never been as low tbh.
They all just pool stories and then re-word the articles for their own website/news outlet.
Basically journalists now copy-paste and modify. No wonder its gonna be easy for someone to control the entire worlds media input....

The best is when on something like kitco news the host or a guest intentionally takes a contrary view for the sole purpose of playing devils advocate. Then articles quote them as if that is their actual opinion

I've got yahoo as my homepage (purely for email reasons) and HOLLLEEEFFFUUKKK at some of their articles. Seems like as long as they use words like Allegedly/supposedly/reportedly then they can write whatever the fuk they want!

Yeah this is a big one too. “Sources say…” “experts say…”

I remember CNN posting articles with blatant lies in the headlines with that technique. Like “Sources close to math field say 2 + 2 = 5”. CNN technically didn’t lie.

Do you think the problem is that nobody pays for news anymore?


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Another one. The word “slammed”

“Arkansas republican slammed by AOC over maternity leave bill”
Actual interaction over twitter: “I’m not going to vote for this” “I’ll vote for this”