Media mountains out of molehills

[Whispersecret]

I'm so tired of being told that there was some study linking something to some horrible thing that could happen to me if I don't watch out. It seems like every day the media is telling us of something else to be wary of, avoid looking at, breathing, eating, wearing, etc. It's like society is being trained to overreact.

Here's a bogus example: "A university study recently showed that if you sleep with your socks on you're at an increased risk of dying in a plane crash."

They never tell you that the increased risk is something like .00000001%. (Like I couldn't figure that out by myself.)

I want to enjoy my life. I don't want to live in some sort of bubble, afraid of everything. Ignorance is sometimes truly bliss.

Does the media actually feel they're doing us a favor by informing us about this junk? And who's paying for all those stupid studies?

 

[riff]

the sword cuts both ways....

many companies would be more than happy for you to live in ignorance while they poison you in one way or another (and you pay them).

and I see your point- sensationalism sells. the first word is to attract attention....

let the media do the media's thing. take what you want and leave the rest. you don't have to subscribe

i do not say the media is saintly... neither am i... but occasionally they do inform us of things we should know about... and sometimes i say something worth hearing...

 

[BrainyBeauty]

TRUE! FACT! No, REALLY!

Whispersecret, I have bad news for you then. This report is hot off the presses of the National Institutes of Health


Bread

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households
score below average on standardized tests.

3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home,
the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality
rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and
diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole
nations.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours
of eating bread.

5. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread
and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two
days.

6. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder"
items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

7. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more
than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your
body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into
a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

8. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

9. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit!
That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

10. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.


PS I personally believe # 6 IS true. It led me down the path to harder stuff like cookies, cakes and pastries. And look at what it did to poor Muffin!

 

[Skibum]

WS, my friend, the media makes their money by getting people to watch their shows, so they can sell advertising. And, except for sex, nothing sells better than fear. if they can convince people that the only way to protect themselves is to watch the TV news for all the warnings of dangerous products/activities, they will have a bigger market share than the ir competition, and sell their ads for even more money.

 

[Juliangel]

BB thanks for the laugh, you should have seen us in the store yesterday morning buying all kind of mixes for my new bread machine.

We came home with 6 or 7 boxes of bread mix and ingredients to make more from scratch and yes we bought some of the hard stuff to go on the bread. Even some really hard stuff like herbal butter, I know we need help, the kids are doomed but we cannot help ourselves

 

[Wil_E_Harden]

"The staff of life"

Yow, that is a WONDERFUL satire! I have written you separately about permission to copy and re-post, with attribution, at other places.

And it reminds me yet again that there is something fishy about the Bible. Bread is the staff of life - ?

Maybe they were really pretty sneaky and trying let future generations know dildoes made of bread were a great warmer-upper?

Nahh, talk about YEAST infections - !

 

[Whispersecret]

BB, that was hilarious. As it happens, I need to get back on the Atkin's diet, which poo-poos bread. LOL.

 

[CreamyLady]

Bread? What bread? Really, I don't know how it got in the car officer, really I don't. No, I don't know Ralph; I never go to Ralphs . . .

The peanut butter isn't mine either, swear to God, really, you gotta believe me. It must be my sister's. I don't eat jelly! Welch's Grape? Me? No way!

 

[BrainyBeauty]

CreamyLady- put down the Skippy and the Wonder Bread and back away S-L-O-W-L-Y. We don't want anyone to get hurt here. Everyone remain calm.

Dear Whisper...glad you liked it. Didn't mean to get away from the topic though. I know what you mean and agree with you to a point. I find it particularly aggravating to read a report one day about the carcinogenic effects of a substance only to be told the exact opposite in another study released months later.

What is really scary tonight is the fact that the world is suddenly topsy turvy. That is the only explanation when BobToad's is the SERIOUS thread on the board for the day! LOL (No offense dear BT) Even more frightening is the fact that I was about to type up a scathing response to his hysteria-cum-chicken little crying- ravings when what do I hear on the national news ------------------> that there is question of whether or not the government knowingly infected hemophiliacs with the AIDS virus in the 80s.

Good God- BobToad may be our savior after all. He may be right on the money! LOL OK- I am only kidding but at least it made me pause before tramping off through his thread to give him the old 'what-for'!

 

[Bobtoad777]

its alright Brainy beuaty give me the what for, give me the what 5 as well. Every thing I say concerning the Pharma Cartel is documented and publically acessable.

On a side not the 80's incident of hemophiliacs and aids, follow the tainted blood trail it leads all the way back to , guess who? Governor, Bill Clinton in Arkansas

 

[Unclebill]

Good News, Whisper, Dear...

On this morning's news I heard that the FDA has reevaluated its condemnation of the dreaded and dastardly saccharin from the seventies and is now of the opinion that their data labelling it as a carcinogen was faulty. It seems they are now of the opinion that their methodology is suspect.

Betcha' won't see that on the nightly TV news!

I'm so distraught and demoralized. How can our wonderful, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent government possibly have made an error? Oh, woe is us! Say it ain't so, Joe!

 

[Andra_Jenny]

It's like the weather. You do not view for sunny & 68 more than once. Without a few scare pieces, they do not sell commercials. I tend to watch the financial shows for news. Their viewership is more affluent and educated and will stop watching if they keep missing. Know what I mean? CNN will not tell you that the Mideast crises will cause price inflation, they are too busy making slick look good in handling it. Stuart Varney on the other hand has to tell his viewers, hey, prices are gonna go up...