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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 30, 2022

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Is there a tool similar to Google Trends but for media headlines?

That would allow one to look up keywords and see how prevalent they were over the years in online newspapers' articles or headlines that can be found on Google News for example.

The Dailystormer and other respectable publications are constantly highlighting reporting of young, fit-looking people 'dying suddenly' or 'unexpectedly' and connecting it with the mass-scale RNA injection experiment undertaken in the West.

I'd like to test that claim if possible by comparing headlines from 2022 to 2019 and earlier.

The Dailystormer and other respectable publications

Honestly cannot tell if you're serious.

But I doubt aggregating headlines would really give you an accurate picture, especially with the trend of all media towards clickbait headlines.

The Dailystormer is ran by a handful of people, has covered many topics in depth that other media don't cover, for example what happened in Charlottesville, on January 6th, the adventures of Hunter Biden, geopolitical issues including non-American sources (Western media hardly ever present the Chinese or Russian POV).

They have a clearly expressed bias, they offer retractions / apologies when they get something wrong, they hold people on their side accountable...

There are a lot of topics that they don't cover and their coverage is usually surface-level, but their journalistic track record is much better than any big media I can think of.

I'm sure that they are other good small media out there, but I haven't looked too much.

But I doubt aggregating headlines would really give you an accurate picture

Just to make a comparison with what we have now. If writing about famous or non-famous people dying suddenly from unknown medical causes without any known chronic disease before 70yo is clickbait, it must be because people are curious about such matters? Kind of a man-bite-dog kind of news.

I'm sure a lot of antivaxxers are looking to stimulate their confirmation bias but can it be the only reason that'd be clickbait?

The Dailystormer is ran by a handful of people, has covered many topics in depth that other media don't cover, for example what happened in Charlottesville, on January 6th, the adventures of Hunter Biden, geopolitical issues including non-American sources (Western media hardly ever present the Chinese or Russian POV).

Maybe now and then they accidentally do some journalism between all the screeds about "kike faggots" and "nigger cunts," but if that is your idea of "respectable," that word clearly has a very different meaning to you.

Well for example today I read an article titled 'Disgusting Vaxer Cunt Dies of Heart Attack at 49'.

You may disagree with the wording of the headline but that same article taught me that not only did Julie Powell die at 49 from cardiac arrest caused by heart arrhythmia but also provided context: she was a fervent vaxxie, boosted in Dec 21 and had a black hairy tongue in late October, which her doctor found not to be a big deal (trust the experts!).

Moreover, she also tweeted what seemed to be virulent hate and did not get banned for it, until her ultimate ban to the shadow realms.

[>"I really can see the argument for slaughtering white people in the streets. It’s not going to happen, because most people are better than me, but Jesus. I see the temptation.

I’m gonna get banned, aren’t i?"](https://twitter.com/licjulie/status/1281476312528498688)

Some people may find that the headline is appropriately worded, after all.

While the article itself is very cheap, easy reporting, thanks to the modern tendency of publishing everything on Twitter; you will hardly get to read such an analysis anywhere else.

By comparison, you can read a cheap article written about crime, with the horrendous headline

'A Woman Was Murdered After Rejecting Her Co-Worker's Sexual Advances. 'We Had No Indication Anything Was Awry,' Her Boss Said.'

and potentially walk away with the idea that a white incel killed after getting turned down, while the perp is none other than Mr. 60%

There is no analysis of the dangers of mixed-race or mixed-sex workplaces, and the basic information is not even there.

While reading news is pointless, at least slurs are a shortcut compared to their leftwing version 'systemic racism', 'entrenched inequalities', 'lack of diversity', 'vulnerable BIPOC and LGBTQUP+ communities' etc etc.

And if you need a reminder that such writings are a threat to the powers-that-be, consider that once again their latest domain name was taken away at the same time as the hammer fell on Kanye.

Some people may find that the headline is appropriately worded, after all.

"Some people" may indeed. Yes, dude, I get it. You are the target audience for the Dailystormer. No need to hide your power level.

Everybody is a target audience for the Dailystormer, they are inclusive with their support of people like Kanye, Tulsi Gabbard, Greenwald...

I don't generally use slurs and find them distateful, but I understand that the shocking value is a way to generate an audience.

If your media of choice includes people that advocate for baby murder, child mutilation, US empire wars etc, how is it any more respectable?

I voted to support the war in Ukraine but at least I didn't say the c-word

This selective outrage over language is quite classist. Reminds me of the Martha Vineyard financial backers of open borders who immediately got rid of the handfuls of immigrants sent their way by the 'distateful' Republicans.

They would never call them 'illegal aliens' but they just couldn't find a spot on their million dollar estates to house them.

Everyone knows who and what the Dailystormer is about. You are not fooling anyone.

I have more respect for white supremacists who own it and say what they believe outright than tap-dancers.

Idk if everybody does as most people don't even know how to access the website, thanks to a number of internet services blacklisting them.

It certainly is an informative website for those that care about subjects that are censored in most other media.

I don't know if DS is strictly white supremacist, but maybe according to your own definition it is?

One would think they would not praise Kanye if they were supremacists.

I only say what I believe, I'm not sure what you think I should be saying that I am not saying.

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