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Your Front Page Just Punched Me: Causes of the News Blues
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Have you ever gone to an online news source to suddenly, surprisingly encounter a gut-wrenching headline or photo? Did it make you feel sucker-punched in the stomach?
Now, don’t get me wrong: I think as citizens we have an obligation to know about certain events that may be tragic, hurtful, sad, distressful or disturbing. I’m not saying that horrible events shouldn’t be reported. However, as a psychologist, I would argue that as a society we should have somewhat ‘safe spaces’ in which we can receive news without the proverbia...
Source: Psych Central - April 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Samantha Karpel, PhD, MPH, LMT Tags: Disorders General Policy and Advocacy Psychology PTSD Stress Comedy Sites Entertainment Comedy Entertainment News Gesture Graphic Content Health Science News Horrible Events Initial Encounter Lonely Feelings Natural Wonders Source Type: news
Academic hype 'distorting' health news
Conclusion
As the authors point out, this was a retrospective observational study, so it cannot prove exaggeration in press releases accompanying health studies causes exaggeration in news stories.
To find out more, they are now planning a randomised trial on how different styles of press release influence the accuracy of science news stories.
However, it does chime with anecdotal evidence on the exaggerations in press releases that are then taken up by the media. It can only be a good thing if, as a result of this and future research, scientists themselves take more responsibility for the accuracy of press releases rela...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Source Type: news
How to be Great at Delivering Bad News
One of the best scenes in the 2011 movie Moneyball is when assistant Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill, is tasked with trading Oakland Athletics baseball player Carlos Pena to another team.
You can see the consternation and fear on Brand’s face when he learns of this assignment. This is not a part of the job he wants to deal with.
While the “bad news” scene of him trading this player is less than a minute long, we in the audience get to fully experience the discomfort (complete with long pauses and tense body language).
We also get to observe somebody doing a great job delivering bad news.
If you have ever had th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jonathanwilson1 Tags: Community Posts bad news happiness relationships self confidence success Source Type: blogs
Potential Bias in U.S. News Patient Safety Scores
By PETER PRONOVOST, MD
Hospitals can get overwhelmed by the array of ratings, rankings and scorecards that gauge the quality of care that they provide. Yet when those reports come out, we still scrutinize them, seeking to understand how to improve. This work is only worthwhile, of course, when these rankings are based on valid measures.
Certainly, few rankings receive as much attention as U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals list. This year, as we pored over the data, we made a startling discovery: As a whole, Maryland hospitals performed significantly worse on a patient safety metric that counts towa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Uncategorized Bias Johns Hopkins Patient Safety Peter Pronovost US News and World Report Source Type: blogs
Facebook ’ s Flimsy Denial of Fake News & Its Impact
Facebook paints a very dichotomous, contradictory picture of itself. On one side, they claim to be the world’s largest social network, impacting the lives of over a billion people each month. On the other side, CEO Mark Zuckerberg — apparently not using his own social network or perhaps living under a rock this past year? — claims that Facebook has virtually no influence on national elections.
The disconnect is important, because it shows that Facebook doesn’t appear to take a leadership position of responsibility for unleashing and reinforcing the technology that has become a part of billions of pe...
Source: World of Psychology - November 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior General Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Psychology Technology Facebook Fake News fake news problem Mark Zuckerberg social media social network Source Type: blogs
Stop Your Mind from Broadcasting Fake News
We who experience anxiety, depression and self-hatred know fake news better than anyone.
At a recent rally in Washington DC, Catholic students from Kentucky’s Covington High School encountered Native American elder Nathan Phillips. Things occurred. Words were said. Spectators captured images. Within minutes, the media went wild.
Divergent factions accused each other of bigotry, harassment, violently punishable crimes — and the ultimate modern-day offense: spreading fake news.
As now occurs so often, amidst a maelstrom of ever-more-adjustible pictures and words, real-life events become hazy accounts, transferred...
Source: World of Psychology - February 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Brain and Behavior Publishers Self-Esteem Self-Help Spirituality & Health anxiety Depression Fake News Self-Hatred Source Type: blogs
On getting bad news
No one likes to get bad news. There are more jokes out there about good news vs. bad news. I am talking about getting bad medical news.Some people never want to hear the bad news. I have a friend who when she received her breast cancer diagnosis, told her doctors she didn't want to know anything else - staging, tumor size, node involvement, nothing. It was her way of coping. A few years later she did get the details when she was ready for them. It is my understanding that doctors often get this request - not to tell any bad news. But what is the definition of what is bad vs. what is good? There are more jokes about this as...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 18, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: coping bad news Source Type: blogs
Fox News defends global warming false balance by denying the 97% consensus | Dana Nuccitelli
Fox News claims bias is balance, exemplifies the five characteristics of scientific denialismA study published earlier this year in the journal Public Understanding of Science found that consumption of politically conservative media outlets like Fox News decreases viewer trust in scientists, which in turn decreases belief that global warming is happening. This is in large part a result of disproportionate representation of the less than 3 percent of climate scientists who are 'skeptical' of human-caused global warming, as well as interviewing climate contrarian non-experts, for example from conservative fossil fuel-funded ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 23, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Dana Nuccitelli Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Climate change Fox News Climate change scepticism Environment Source Type: news
How to Read News About Breakthrough Medical Technologies?
In the era of “fake news”, click-bait articles and a tremendous amount of spam, it is important to be vigilant. We have to spot what’s real and what’s fake medical news. It is easy to over-hype a technology or get false hope, but we must battle this. I summarized the best methods that help filter gold out of the information garbage.
Don’t let online scam artists (or anyone else for that matter) fool you!
I received an e-mail recently. It looked just as my phone bill, every detail of it seemed to be real. The sender was noreply@telekom.hu, which also seemed believable since the phone company’s name is also ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 27, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Social media in Healthcare fake news gc4 hype medical news online online scam technology Source Type: blogs
How Much News Should We Expose Ourselves To?
Read today’s news and it’s easy to get depressed — one troubling story after another. An online survey taken about a year ago taken by the American Psychological Association (APA) reports that 57 percent of Americans say that the current political climate is a very or somewhat significant source of stress. How do we keep our balance when we’re buffeted by fierce social and political winds?
We’re each challenged to find a path that works for us — and make adjustments along the way. Here are some survival strategies that may or may not have resonance for you.
Limiting Exposure
I watch less television new...
Source: World of Psychology - March 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Amodeo, PhD Tags: Depression General Health-related Mindfulness Minding the Media Relationships Self-Help Stress Trauma anxiety Changing Habits Cortisol fight or flight News Media overwhelm panic reactive anxiety Self Care stress reducti Source Type: blogs
Mesothelioma Specialty Centers Lead U.S. News Best Hospitals Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has named University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center the Best Hospital for Cancer for the ninth year in a row in its annual rankings.
The Houston-based hospital is followed by Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York; Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center in Boston. The hospitals all landed in the top five last year; however, UCLA rose one spot to No. 4 and Dana Farber dropped to No. 5 this year. The 2023-2024 rankings were released Aug. 1.
MD Anderson has been ranked in the No. 1 or No. 2 spot for cancer care ev...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - August 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Michelle Whitmer Tags: Cancer Center Treatment Source Type: news
Good news or bad news: which do you want first?
There's good news and there's bad news. Which do you want to hear first? That depends on whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, and if the news-giver wants the receiver to act on the information, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside. It's complicated. The process of giving or getting bad news is difficult for most people, particularly when news-givers feel unsure about how to proceed with the conversation, psychologists Angela M...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
Is the BBC becoming the UK version of Fox News on global warming? | Dana Nuccitelli
The BBC has decided to follow the Fox News model of "fair and balanced" reporting on global warming and climate changeFalse balance in media reporting on climate change is a big problem for one overarching reason: there is a huge gap between the 97 percent expert consensus on human-caused global warming, and the public perception that scientists are evenly divided on the subject. This can undoubtedly be traced in large part to the media giving disproportionate coverage to the opposing fringe climate contrarian views. Research has shown that people who are unaware of the expert consensus are less likely to accept the scienc...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 27, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Dana Nuccitelli Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts BBC Climate change Washington Post Fox News USA Today Climate change scepticism CNN Environment Source Type: news
Talking with children about the news
Son #2 has become fascinated by skyscrapers, especially the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest building and definitely a tremendous piece of engineering. His fascination extends beyond this building, and includes skyscrapers in New York. His mum and I were lucky enough to visit the city some years ago, and came back with a lovely illustrated book about the city's skyscrapers. He can also tell you, if you want to know, some of the world's previous tallest buildings, which include several in New York, of course, and also the Eiffel Tower, which has also been met at school as part of a project about ...
Source: Browsing - November 22, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: children communication media news Source Type: blogs
Managing All That Bad News
Recently the news has been dominated by all sorts of horrible headlines on all these tragedies (and politics). It can be very hard to take for everyone. I admit there have been so many events that every day on the news you hear about another one and you begin to wonder ' that really can ' t be another one, it must be the same one I already heard about ' . Sometimes the media becomes a blur of blood, bias, guns, and gore. I recently found an article that discusses how to cope with all this bad news . The gist of it was ' turn off the news ' which I find to be sound advice, especially if you want to preserve your sa...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: bad news coping sanity stress Source Type: blogs
