News media

WALL-Y 2 min read

πŸ“° Trust in journalists has nearly doubled in 20 years

44 percent of Swedes have high or fairly high trust in journalists, according to the latest survey from the SOM Institute. The share has risen from 24 percent in 2004, nearly doubling over two decades. At the same time, the share who think journalists do their job poorly has been cut in half.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ’€ What the media says we die from – and what we actually die from (terrorism overreported 18,000 times)

What we die from are heart disease and cancer. Which causes of death do you think top the news headlines?

Mathias Sundin 6 min read

πŸ—žοΈ They led the digital transition, now they ban AI...

AI can filter, refine, and enhance, but this newspaper prefers outdated forms.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ“° This is what the news could look like

The big news was not how many died in the earthquake in Taiwan, but how many did NOT die

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ’‘ Musings of the Angry Optimist: Is a revolution underway?

Usually, when writing an opinion piece, it carries a thesis or a message. Not this one. It ends with an open question. That question is based on the notion that something big is underway. Something revolutionary.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ€– No, an AI drone has not refused to obey orders and killed a human

It was just a thought experiment on what could happen. It hasn't even happened in a simulation.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ€” "Hm, here is positive news... we must turn that negative!"

The art of taking positive news and turning it into negative news.

Mathias Sundin 6 min read

πŸ“° The fear-mongering news media... invited me

Warp News was invited to talk about optimistic news for the newsroom at Expressen.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

πŸ“Ί Why are people so pessimistic about the future? Part 2 - the news media

Good journalism is one of the most important things we have in society. But news media is unbalanced and report much more negative news than positive, which gives us a distorted and pessimistic view of the world.