Betty Sue makes $286,000 per month on Etsy. She started with nothing, and now she’s filthy rich.

Come on, man. The chances of that happening to the average person are close to zero. Stories like this give people unrealistic expectations.

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    They use sensationalism to make things sound worse than they are.

    They selectively report information, leaving out details that don’t fit their agenda.

    They use misleading headlines, knowing that people often only read the headlines. They use words like “horrifying,” “catastrophic,” and “viral.”

    They manipulate charts, graphs, statistics, and photographs.

    Balanced reporting isn’t balanced if it pits a scientist against a conspiracy theorist.