If you watch the news or read the newspapers – you've no excuse.
Because only idiots waste time on idiots.
– You went to the barber shop, you brought news and you took news.
– You went to the mead house, you brought news and you took news.
They'd only reach each other over a distance by phone.
Impersonal phone calls replaced connecting at the market and the barber shop.
That there ever were free mass media is ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIES EVER TOLD.
The Internet is your liberation from the centralized control of news, media & academia.
If you ditch the illusion that a central authority can tell you what's trusty & what's fake.