There is currently exemplary (even historic) progress in linguistics at the 24-hour U.S. news stations sometimes including BBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC & OAN. The White House is also doing a lot for peace. First Lady Jill Biden told CNN on the air to send “love” to leaders of other countries. President Biden patterned “peace” with Palestinian President Abbas and on his official visit to Saudi Arabia. And the White House courageously implemented a generous foreign policy and has sent food to countries around the world.
But we really need that effort to continue because there use to be historically bad patterning in popular culture in English. “Death” was written and stated over a quarter of a million times on CNN alone, because the concept of pattern recognition hadn’t been introduced to most news makers yet. Although astonishing, that’s a conservative estimate. The number is also much greater when you consider all of major news sources.
(Imagine the mindset of the authors of that excessive “death” word frequency. Have them pattern “living” and “alive” in writing five thousands times to save them from the psychological affects. That’s also a great way to train anyone.)
The importance of vocabulary word frequency is easy to teach quickly. A few email messages or phone calls is probably enough to get the concept across. But a lot of people had to be contacted. And they now need time to practice implementing new persuasion techniques well. Many innocent people initially didn’t know there was inciting vocabulary word frequency, and now need time to practice utilizing better vocabulary.
There’s more work to do to teach and remind everyone. But with continuous effort, current progress can certainly continue.
People producing NATO news have always had the best interests of NATO in mind. Their goal clearly hasn’t been to incite unnecessarily. Their goal has been to protect the population of NATO countries - heroically, at great risk to themselves sometimes. Now hundreds - and eventually thousands - of great journalists are learning how to save lives with patterning. And many are already starting to do that well now.
It was very important that word frequency improve substantially (and it remains important that word frequency continue to improve) because it was reminiscent of Germany’s inciting vocabulary at the start of World War II. So to prevent a catastrophe, media outreach to promote peaceful word choice was very important.
The United States is benefitting tremendously because of the education news makers have received, and the communication excellence already being demonstrated. There is more work to do. But there’s also historic progress in U.S. communication when you consider the starting point in the education process.
An actual building in Germany today. See the Germany peace page.
There are very important people on air in the United States who were born in Germany and perhaps speak the language. 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 their entire lives. 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 in part because the most frequently used word in German newspapers and on German street signs was “die.”
It’s unfair to the population of Ukraine that weapons could be used unnecessarily by all sides as a consequence of that word frequency. Russia and Ukraine are justified - from a communications perspective - to demand a weapons-free Ukraine, because recent word frequency in NATO news was too reminiscent of the 1940’s. The current peace proposal from the Russian side is just that.
Russia and Ukraine understand that the same people who unknowingly were responsible for the unhelpful word frequency are in fact the same individuals who are now knowingly - heroically - improving word frequency for the first time. Communication teams on all sides therefore have real reasons to care about and support each other because of the extraordinary communication progress occurring now. Eventually - if this continues - all sides might even feel peaceful and loving towards one another. That has a real possibility of happening.
The past clearly won’t be the future if good people lead communication ethically. News makers innocently improved the word frequency immediately upon being contacted about it. They did a lot to improve the news, particularly in 2023. Now there are SUPERB intelligent and phenomenal people at networks responsible who care deeply about peace continuing that progress in 2024. They are doing more than just a great job for world peace. (For instance, the people responsible for this progress are heroes who 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. And all peaceful world leaders see the important progress occurring in communication on all networks, and are protective of the heroes responsible on them.
The things that we say matter.
With that in mind, here are examples of innocently unhelpful patterning.
(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 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?”
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January 3, 2024
This graphics writing is inciting the same conflict that ostensibly the editorial content is against.
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The Russia-Ukraine war graphics have been a historically unhelpful influence.
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CNN seemed to be implying that Palestinians were responsible for a U.S. train derailment, when none were in the area, by using the words “Palestine” and “death” in their news coverage of it. A clash between Palestinians and Jews followed in Israel.
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Here’s how to deter without inciting: