There’s something to be said for the media alerting everyone in their localities of potential Halloween threats. Every time the media alert us of some new threat (e.g rainbow fentanyl) and it’s a false alarm, people ultimately experience a sort of cry-wolf effect and this results in kids experiencing the negative consequences.
The media ultimately aren’t incentivized properly to reserve these reports to account for these transitive impacts, and as long as we’re consuming these channels for free they end up cashing in on our fears and showing us these reports to make a quick buck.
Yeah just this morning I saw in bold on my newsfeed: "URGENT RECALL" for some chocolate bars from costco or whatever, and this is days before Halloween.
It was a small quality-control/expiry date recall for adult snacks.
I don't see this kind of behavior ending well for anyone involved.
The media ultimately aren’t incentivized properly to reserve these reports to account for these transitive impacts, and as long as we’re consuming these channels for free they end up cashing in on our fears and showing us these reports to make a quick buck.
Spooky in its own way I guess.