Why is everything a "crisis"?

I was at the gym today on the elliptical machine and they have numerous TVs plastered across the wall. CNN had a "breaking news" story announcing that Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid and has no symptoms. I just kept thinking to myself "when are they going to start announcing that someone in the spotlight caught a cold?"
 
dseag2 said:
I was at the gym today on the elliptical machine and they have numerous TVs plastered across the wall. CNN had a "breaking news" story announcing that Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid and has no symptoms. I just kept thinking to myself "when are they going to start announcing that someone in the spotlight caught a cold?"
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If they have a good marriage, she must have given it to her husband.
 
My grandfather used to read a number of daily newspapers. He would read liberal ones, conservative ones and ones in the center...and then digest what is there and form an opinion that way.

You can get real information from the media, but you tend to have to do a lot more work than just listen to one news show.

Try to get information directly from the source. So, if you want to read about the US military's response to the Ukraine crisis, you can listen to a report on the TV news. Or, you can go to the actual Pentagon website and read the professional statements by actual Pentagon officials. Not that the Pentagon might not also slant stories, but it is going to be much more accurate than just some story on the news read by a pundit.

Then, you can go to the websites of a few retired, high ranking military officers and read what they have to say. Listen to their support for the Pentagon positions and their criticisms of those positions. If the Pentagon report and the commentary by, oh, 5 or 6 high ranking, retired Admirals and Generals are all consistent...then you start to get a reasonably accurate picture of what is going on.

And then you look at the time it takes to do all that. Oh, maybe 5 hours work. And that is reality. If you want to dig into a story and get a real sense of facts, it could take you 5 hours of work!!!

For Ukraine, I have been listening to a former Ambassador to Ukraine, a former Ambassador to Russia and about 5 retired generals, including a former Supreme Commander of NATO. When all those folks agree on something, I assume that is a pretty accurate stance.

And with Ukraine, I find that they are all in agreement on a range of points and all have different views on some other points.

I did that for the first month of the war. Now, way too burned out to do that much work.
 
Alligatorob said:
I have already stopped responding...
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At school a conversation arose as to how/why women chose to have more babies after WWII, and as far as I can remember the teacher said something along the lines of, "This happens, or has happened after every war"!

A classmate then asked, " How do the women know to start having more babies,(let's say to make up the population again perhaps?)?

And the answer, again as far as I can remember was "No one knows"!

Therefore, just maybe, should something you should take notice of more than current crises, then maybe your response will be found to be intact after all, (just "maybe" I'm suggesting, if the two situations are comparable?). :)
 
chic said:
If you still watch mainstream media news or engage in social media platforms you'll see the word "crisis" a lot. No one just ever has a tricky day anymore. It's got to be an apocalyptic event and this is just not so and we know it so why do so many keep falling for it? Honestly, if I never hear the word "crisis" again, I'll be a much happier person.

Thoughts?
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Hmm First thought lazy journalism, then I realised that 'crisis' has just 6 letters and 'catastrophe' is much longer. Journos like snappy headlines.
 
I don't believe we just recently invented hype. We have a long love affair with the biggest, largest, smallest, oldest, newest, etc. etc. etc. It's what we humans do when we want to show things to others. We 'hype" it.
Yup I agree "Breaking news" is trite, and overused.
 
Let's see what the current "breaking news" stories are (according to a Google search for breaking news)...
  • Russia shuts off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
  • Russia releases former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed in prisoner exchange
  • US out of the ‘pandemic phase' of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci says
  • Disney’s self-governing district says Florida cannot dissolve it without paying off its debts
  • San Jose police ID 3 suspects arrested in kidnapping of 3-month-old Brandon Cuellar
  • Man arrested in 1988 killing of 11-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire
 
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