“Unprecedented” gets used a lot in the media, along with “breaking news” and “traumatized” and “devastated.”
One could easily get the idea that hyperbole rules, that no one can handle anything anymore, no one possesses an adequate vocabulary or even a modicum of coping skills. We’re all just raw bundles of nerves, apparently, ready to lash out and assume the worst, conditioned not to think before we speak.
Yikes.
Blame it on Fox News, blame it on NBC if you want. The media in general have a knack for this pants-on-fire tactic. It’s all about clicks and viewership numbers. So, anything goes.
Was it the same when Cronkite was sitting in the anchor chair? Is Edward R. Murrow rolling in his grave?
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