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Information Is BeautifulWhat American's die from vs What US Media reports on...
marco_m_aus_f@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Probably not much different elsewhere.
Matilda Love@infobeautiful combine this with overreporting of (alleged) violence by Black folks and you start to understand what the owning class want us to fear
Jordan Biserkov@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
So What American's die from is ... US media disinformation campaigns, making them focus on the wrong priorities.
So What American's die from is ... US media disinformation campaigns, making them focus on the wrong priorities.
Mars Uribe@infobeautiful @ourworldindata So what the infographic tells me is that we need to increase funding for the U.S. dept of homeland sec., so they can wage a War against Heart disease and another War against Cancer right? That will fix things, right?
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Karen E. Lund đđ@infobeautiful @ourworldindata I would love to see a similar graph of what the media thinks women die of (90% breast cancer, it seems) vs what women actually die of, which I'm pretty sure is heart disease, and probably similar rate to the chart shown here.
eswillwalker@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Wow. Almost a perfect negative correlation. Imagine that.
giselle@ELS @infobeautiful @ourworldindata you're very close to understanding why something gets on the news
Enema Cowboy@ourworldindata it's interesting that the NYT and WP give more coverage to terrorism than Fox News.
derptron@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Gotta come up with a way to blame heart disease and cancer on brown people.
stonedonkey đšī¸đŽđž@infobeautiful "FoxNews" being media is amusing..
Workshopshed@infobeautiful @ourworldindata so given that heart disease is mostly self inflicted the phrase "Guns don't kill, people do" is reasonably sound.
@infobeautiful this should be spread everywhere, and run full page in every newspaper and magazine, with the words "Sorry we lied about this" across the top
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no shit, wtf do you idiots want the news to do about heart disease, whats new about it
Elias Probst@2UN77N28p5355Qgu media focus influences public opinion, public opinion decides voting behaviour, voting behavior defines politics, politics defines policies where money/resource/legal matters are directed to which enable change.
Heart diseases can be prevented to a large degree by changes to nutrition, mobility (cars vs bikes/pedestrianization), etc which are all a direct dependency of politics.
The drastically different situation in other nations clearly shows
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Nu Modular@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
Fazal Majid@infobeautiful @ourworldindata as in dog bites man, it's things that have become so commonplace they are no longer newsworthy we should really worry about.
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I'd like to see the same analysis done using left-leaning and liberal media too. I doubt it's much different.
Michelle Hughes@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
Jesus, 7.8% of deaths are caused by "accidents"? And I presume this means mostly car crashes? This is massive! And people just let that happen?? And they still think cars culture is a good idea??
Those newspapers must not be reporting on these accidents in a systematic way.
Bobsee@infobeautiful @ourworldindata What is also interesting is that we do not routinely screen for heart disease, and do not screen or underscreen for many cancers.
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Thijzer@infobeautiful @ourworldindata can this ever be fixed? I honestly don't see this happening when every government needs to protect the economy, the driving engine that keeps this capitalistic model in place.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata almost like you could explain it via a regal theory and terror managment theory death anxiety and collective threat and info processing in networks and oh yeah disgust and contamination. and yet the stuff that kills you is how you care for your genes and body and chronic stress inflammation etc. basically how well managed your wet cyborg is run across time and how foward looking your habits are.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata research and policy are complex and slow moving, that's all. They are rarely newsworthy. Even car crashes are routine. We need less news and less screen time, not "artificially balanced" news.
Angelina@infobeautiful @ourworldindata We have the same in France. đŦ
Dud and Forgotten.@infobeautiful Got to chase those sexy, saleable headlines, though! @ourworldindata