Journalists addicted to Junk Science
March30
A group of scientists proved for the hundredth time today that lazy journalists will gorge themselves on pseudo scientific waffle.
A group of control journalists called ‘bloggers’ were fed on a diet of raw information and dull research papers whilst MSM journalists were fed preformed biased and unscientific press releases from a marketing company keen to peddle the latest quasi health drug.
The results showed that the journalists gulped down the information until their fat little fingers could barely type out ‘Thank you. It’ll be in tomorrows paper if we have a slow news day.’
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In other news(?)… if you feed rats a load of crap they get fat.
Magnificent.
My main issue with bloggers actually is that a) there isn’t enough of them and b) it’s kinda tricky to first find a blog on a subject you’re interested in, and then to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Blogs actually are a great example of positive externalities. We blog for catharsis; to bitch about the state of the world. For some obscure reason, other people enjoy reading our rants.
Thanks to this unpriced externality, there ought to be an under-supply of high-quality blogs. And indeed there is. Still working on the solution to this.