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August 10, 2024: Are some graphics unfair to on-screen presenters of the news?

There is currently exemplary (even historic) progress in linguistics at the 24-hour U.S. news stations including BBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC & OAN. But the truth is that it’s still not enough because of the amount of unhelpful patterning in previous years and decades. Presenters of the news currently are doing a phenomenal job with respect to linguistics. But all U.S. political parties are still inciting one another. Graphics and headline writing is still too inciting from time to time, and inciting word frequency got accidentally out of hand in previous years (and perhaps even decades).

Continued communication progress is critical because there use to be historically bad patterning in popular culture in English. “Death” was written and spoken well over a quarter of a million times one year on one U.S. network alone - in coverage of corona… before the concept of pattern recognition had been introduced to news producers. That’s terrifying when you understand how pattern recognition works. Everyone is susceptible to pattern recognition regardless of level of sophistication/advancement.

Imagine the terribly incited mindset of the authors of an excessive “death” word frequency in graphics. They would have to write “living” and “alive” an equivalent number of times to save themselves from the psychopathological affects of their own inciting patterning. We don’t want graphics writers to become psychopaths, and we don’t want graphics to create countless numbers of them. (Make sure newswriters are well trained in patterning before handing them a keyboard.)

The importance of vocabulary word frequency is easy to teach quickly. A few email messages or phone calls was probably enough to get the concept across. But research was necessary just to reach journalists, who understandably needed time to practice implementing new persuasion techniques well. Many innocent people initially didn’t know there was inciting vocabulary word frequency. And now publishers must work diligently to correct for the terrible past extreme. Presenters on 24-hour news stations are currently doing a near perfect job patterning. As a group, they’re leading historically. But we still sometimes need better graphics and headline writing so that foreign governments won’t be incited against our own, and so that Americans won’t be incited against each other in our streets. Real lives are on the line.

NATO news producers have always had the best interests of NATO in mind. Their goal clearly has always been to protect the population - sometimes at great risk to themselves. But patriotism can no longer be used as an excuse for neglecting pattern recognition.

We must not have word frequency - in graphics, headlines or anywhere else - similar to Nazi Germany’s in the early 1940s.

An actual building in Germany today. See the Germany peace page.

Perhaps there are very important people who were born in Germany and speak the language involved in U.S. media. The word “the” is spelled “die” in German. So the word “die” and concept of “death” may not be startling to them - they’ve been saying “die” in every German paragraph. Probably they’re desensitized to it. But they shouldn’t be. Words matter:

There were close to forty million lives lost in World War II. The United States, United Kingdom and Russia aligned together and collectively lost twenty five million lives. It was one of the most unfortunate contests in history because the most frequently used word in German newspapers and on German street signs was “die.”

That’s why some forms of incitement are unprotected by the first amendment.

Some NATO security competitors patterned far more ethically over the past few years than publishers in Europe and the United States.

This past clearly won’t be the future now that NATO news is improving. News makers have already innocently improved word frequency (almost immediately upon being contacted about it). They did a lot to improve the news, particularly starting in late 2023. We need them to continue that improvement right now.

There are SUPERB, intelligent, ethical and generally phenomenal people at networks who care deeply about communication progress. For instance, the people responsible for this type of progress are helping an extraordinary number of people, and must be promoted, complimented and encouraged - because we need to retain and further encourage that amazing progress. There are a lot of extraordinarily ethical journalists. The on-screen talent is doing an absolutely phenomenal job. They’re heroes to peace makers. And all peaceful world leaders see the important progress occurring in communication on all networks, and should be protective of journalists globally as a result.

The things that we say matter.

With that in mind, here are examples of innocently but also sometimes historically unhelpful word frequency.

(Click the images below for suggestions on how to improve word choice….. and be sure to scroll all the way down the page for instructions on “How to deter without inciting.”)

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The losing side in World War II had similar patterning to today’s CNN news iPhone application

February 20, 2024

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Two hundred innocent journalists died over the past several years. That’s a significant percentage of a small population of them. It’s important that graphics and teleprompter continue to improve, and create better intuitions towards them than demise. Real people - including journalists - are being affected by vocabulary word frequency. Journalists on CNN should insist on exemplary graphics writing the way there was recently.

I recommend a 2 to 1 ratio of peaceful versus inciting vocabulary words on all networks except CNN. CNN should be exclusively peaceful indefinitely.

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December 19, 2023

Better graphics writing will create helpful intuitions/behaviors towards on-screen talent.

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December 21, 2023

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48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the US during 2021 according to the CDC.

This type of graphics writing is inciting, and consequently unhelpful to reducing that number.

December 21, 2023

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January 7, 2023

Fareed Zakaria is one of the most talented people on television and currently has exemplary graphics writing. But this was an exception that could have been better. This could have been better written as: “No hope for peace in Ukraine?”