Yep. This is exactly why my grandparents think crimes exploding everywhere.
Cause theres constantly crime in the news.
and no amount of explaining “None of this crime is local to us, if crime was as bad as you think it was, they wouldnt have to report on a minor incident from across the country to have a crime to report on the local news”, no amount of showing them falling crime rates, nothing, will convince them otherwise.
Cause they can only believe what they see and are told repeatedly, and the news…both local and national, is perfectly doing their part to make things seems worse than they are.
Its partly because of unnecessarily increased coverage… 3+ hours in the morning, an hour or more at lunch, then like 2+ hours at dinner, then again at 10pm… and thats not even accounting for the 24 hour news channels, and the regular channels breaking into regular programming for increasingly banal shit.
and partly because they have a vested interest in strife and mayhem because theres no profit in a 24 hour news coverage where the every our on the hour, the only report is “And nothing of concern happened today.”
Which is why they’ve bent over backwards sanewashing trump before the last election. a trump presidency is great for ratings because people turn in every day to see what new horror is being unleashed, and the media doesnt care how complicit they are in creating it.
Same here.
Windows EOL is why I switched to linux.
proton is why I’ve stayed on linux.
I only have windows on my laptop atm, and thats only because of sheer laziness and the fact i dont use it much anymore… will be putting linux on it eventually, though.