Uncertainty - political and prophetic

Maybe it's the Covid virus thing or perhaps the mess of the media with the 2020 election, but lately I've noticed an enormous number of news articles who's substance is founded on uncertainty. It's artificial. These headlines and articles use words and phrases such as:

Probably
Possibly
Possible
Potentially
Might
Could 
May  
Perhaps
Maybe

That's not substance.  Those are nothingness portrayed as predictions you need to pay attention to. Some of that is to be expected in the media but it's almost become almost part of the foundation of the media.  It's assumed that people accept them as almost prophecies. Which may actually improve the chances of some negative thing occurring because now people are expecting that thing the news fed as a probability. Smells like garbage to me.  Lo here, lo there.  

I'm not a journalist but constantly portraying an imagined fearful future of "might" and "could" "perhaps" as if it was a substantive news article seems like piss poor journalism. It's misleading. Bottom of the barrel way to drum up ratings and readers. Using fear and uncertainty which is something we are all vulnerable to.  And deliberately playing off of it to portray an artificial world founded on "might be" to entice people in.  Uncertainty is conveniently always deniable, because one can always point back to the fact that someone said "might" and thus get off the hook for the effects of them saying pretty much whatever they want.            

The virus never-solution: 

Why is the solution to this virus mess never to give the public as accurate of information as public governmental leaders are able to provide, and then let every man, woman, family, or business decide for themselves how best to protect themselves and carry out their lives according to their unique situations?  The news would have to simply state facts and not have to deal with bogus national or worldwide uncertainty risks that don't even apply to most people.  Just give facts, and let people choose.  

Prophetic Uncertainty:

In other recent news there was President Nelson's worldwide message and social media gratitude blitz video.  In the 11 minute video the Church too is also using uncertainty phrases that can neither be proved nor disproved and always has plausible deniability.  In the 11 minute Church video President Nelson said, with a look of uncertainty on his face: "Perhaps, this will fulfill, in part, the promise God gave to Father Abraham".  Perhaps? In part?  Is it possible to be any more more noncommittal about your statement?  This is proverbial emperor with not clothes type of statement.

As one writer put it:  Gratitude, social media blitzes, high-tech equivalents of the Rameumptom and virtue signaling are definitely NOT what God would be telling us to do to…they're not the "urgent and important" remedies for mankind's sins, and you know it.

The hashtag associated to this Church video quickly became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter in the United States and was still the second-biggest trending topic more than two hours after the video posted and remained in the top five for several hours.  Popularity is apparently important to those producing these videos.  

For some reason they had President Nelson use eye color changing lenses for this video....    I don't even know if I want to find out why they would do something like this.  

I also learned that pretty much none of the Quorum of the 12 and President Nelson himself followed his own message to post on social media for 7 days.  None of them apparently took it seriously enough to follow along. See here.