Questionable Media Perspective
By Daniel Miessler on March 30th, 2005: Tagged as Culture | Politics | Rants
According to CNN and a number of other reports I’ve seen recently, the world is becoming more and more safe as time goes on. I have numerous reports describe how drug use is going down, teen pregnancy is on the decline, and something called “violent crime” is at an all-time low.
I’m a bit confused about these reports.
Is it just me or is anyone else of the opinion that there’s never been a more dangerous environment for raising children? Did it used to be more important that we lock our doors at night — and not so much now? Did it used to be more dangerous to have your kids play outside — and not so much now? How are people coming up with this crap?
I mean, I’m familiar with the concept of media slant and perspecitve bias based on exposure to slanted input, but can someone honestly make the argument to me that violence against children, teen pregnancy, high-school drop-out rates are all lower than they were 20 years ago? Seriously…
Those pushing this idiocy are using statistics to generate false truths, which are then pushed out to the masses in some lame PR campaign to prove we’re better off than the news says we are. I find it disturbing, and I’m curious as to why would want to push such ideas.