Misleading the public

It seems that the most of the time the misleading that is done by what is considered a major media outlet is what gets the most attention. While sitting and looking at the opportunities that were presented by the NY times when comparing the SARS outbreak to other deadly diseases it seems that it is meager in comparison. It is said that a picture can speak a thousand words. With the way this picture is set up and how our mind has been classically trained the larger something is the more important it should be to us. Yet when examining the information provided there is no such correlation. Each bit of information is not similar comparing how many are infected total to new infections over the past 2-3 months. This is not a statistical comparison instead it’s random facts of information presented in a misleading way. Malaria and Tuberculosis are the two main that draw your eyes to the page. Because of the emphasis put on them through color and size, and the fact that both have a greater bold placed on them. Yet there is no reason for that nor the text box size placed around them. The data could have better been viewed as a graph or at least similar references so that people can understand the reasoning behind the emphasis placed on some of the items but not all.

I feel like this kinetic typography from Lord of War done by servius76 is a better representation of Typography than the NYtimes.