{"id":80830,"date":"2015-07-14T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/?p=80830"},"modified":"2015-07-14T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:17:27","slug":"the-fibromyalgia-mystery-is-not-solved-how-to-identify-yellow-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2015\/07\/14\/the-fibromyalgia-mystery-is-not-solved-how-to-identify-yellow-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fibromyalgia Mystery is NOT Solved: How to Identify Yellow Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Does it matter whether the news you\u00a0read \/watch\/listen to is factual and\u00a0accurate?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nA\u00a0friend of mine recently asked what I thought of this article,<a href=\"http:\/\/guardianlv.com\/2013\/06\/fibromyalgia-mystery-finally-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Fibromyalgia Mystery Finally Solved!&#8221;<\/a> I felt I owed\u00a0her my honest response. In a long note, I explained why the title is a lie and why the article is blatant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_journalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow Journalism<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>If truth maters to you, then you&#8217;ll want to boycott Yellow Journalism.<\/strong> (Scroll to the end of this post\u00a0to find out how to identify it).<br \/>\n<strong>Yellow Journalism<\/strong> is a term coined\u00a0more than 100 years ago to define news reporting. It describes unethical, unprofessional reporting, which uses eye-catching headlines, exaggeration, sensationalism and scandal-mongering to attract readers. The goal of Yellow Journalism is straightforward and simple. Attract more readers in order to make huge bucks selling ads. Yellow Journalism has become\u00a0so ingrained in our culture, that few\u00a0people today call it\u00a0unethical or\u00a0unprofessional.<br \/>\nThere are people who have given up on the idea of &#8220;truth,&#8221; who believe it doesn&#8217;t exist and all of our efforts to find it are as absurd as Alice&#8217;s adventures on the other side of the looking glass.<br \/>\n<strong>I believe in truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe that wise judgement can separate truth\u00a0from misinformation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I believe that knowing the\u00a0truth empowers us.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I believe that misinformation, propaganda, and lies are manipulative, disrespectful, and just plain wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, evidently, does <a href=\"http:\/\/Author Is Kicked Out of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oprah. Otherwise, why would she have made such a big stink about James\u00a0Frey&#8217;s fictionalized Memoir, A Million Little Pieces. <\/a>He called it the &#8220;essential truth&#8221; of his\u00a0life. She called it a lie.<br \/>\nTruth matters. I say that\u00a0everyone who slants, misrepresents, or manipulates truth\u00a0is a liar. And liars are extremely cunning.<br \/>\n<strong>It requires\u00a0diligent, shrewd effort to ferret out truth from lies in news coverage.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn assessing the quality of the news you&#8217;re ingesting, if you want <strong>to avoid Yellow Journalism, beware of:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scary, Provocative, or Sensational Headlines;<\/li>\n<li>Misleading Headlines (the accompanying story doesn&#8217;t\u00a0deliver what the headline promises);<\/li>\n<li>Pictures\/Video footage with few\u00a0words or words that mean almost nothing;<\/li>\n<li>Quotes from unnamed sources;<\/li>\n<li>Unabashed Self-Promotion;<\/li>\n<li>Generic, lame, and\/or bad advice offered\u00a0by pseudo -&#8220;experts&#8221; (look them up, who ARE they and who thinks they really are experts?);<\/li>\n<li>Pseudoscience&#8211;claims, beliefs or practices incorrectly represented as scientific (ask a scientist to evaluate the data);<\/li>\n<li>News presented by agencies whose primary purpose is to attract advertisers;<\/li>\n<li>Articles\u00a0written by writers who get paid for the number of &#8220;clicks&#8221; they generate. Their entire goal is to write content to\u00a0attracts hoards of\u00a0online viewers. Examples of this include the fibromyalgia mystery article published by Liberty Voice, and this article recently published by Elite Daily,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/life\/culture\/optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late\/1097735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Optimistic People All Have One Thing in Common: They&#8217;re Always Late.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The truth about what&#8217;s really going on in the world isn&#8217;t often\u00a0entertaining. Sometimes\u00a0it&#8217;s painful. But\u00a0surely you don&#8217;t want to be lied to.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Where do you get your news from? And what makes you believe you&#8217;re learning\u00a0the truth? \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close reading of the &#8220;news&#8221; reveals that much of what we take for fact,  is at best an entertaining opinion, often misleading, and sometimes harmful propaganda.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,389,517,539,1162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}