Journalist/News is not what it used to be. Public opinion is driven by perception rather than by fact. The proposition that endless repetition has caused too many of us to mistake ego for wisdom. Better to repeat than to verify.
Authentication costs money. There is rarely balanced reporting anymore, and the news is far removed from its original purpose.
If you want to know how Joe Biden performed in a debate, you will turn to our publicly funded ABC. Conversely, should you want to know how Donald Trump performed, you would turn to Sky News.
Same debate but two completely different reports, proving yet again that most media have an agenda to push and will only tell you the line that fits its agenda, not necessarily the truth. And the fact people don't see this blows my mind!
Liberal posts something from <insert usual leftist website/news channel>
RW: X, Y and Z in that article are wrong. Point number 3, 4 and 7 in that article is hypocritical. This website is biased. Why won’t it talk about A, B and C?
Liberal: Shut up you idiot, don’t do whataboutism.
RW posts something from a right-wing website or news channel.
RW: Hey liberal, see this!
Liberal: LOL! Fake news. F*ck it.
Now, neither side managed to convert anyone, as arguments rarely do. But there is a crucial difference between how a right-winger treats a liberal
website and a liberal treats a right-wing website.
The liberal will dismiss the right-wing website as fake and stupid, without even clicking on it. The right-winger will actually read what the liberal posted, get angry and try to poke holes in it.
And this is why we are so different. But do you see what happened here? The left-wing website got due respect and validation from *both* sides of the aisle. By engaging with it, the right-winger helped make the left-wing website appear like a
genuinely authoritative source of information, providing a viewpoint worthy of respect.
The liberal, on the other hand, treated the right-wing website with outright contempt, refusing to engage with it, dismissing it as fake by definition.
So i got more curious about #NorfolkSouthernDerailment@nscorp Southern after seeing them post a "Factcheck" article from USA today and on the USA today article at the bottom said it was paid for by a grant from FACEBOOK!
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According to CA The basis for the listing of vinylidene chloride (1,1-dichloroethylene) 1,2-Dichloroethene, commonly called 1,2-dichloroethylene or 1,2-DCE which is one of the elevated samples from the 6 lakes/rivers
Governor DeWine provided the following updates regarding East Palestine today. AND I CALL BS ema.ohio.gov/media-publicat…
Lets not forget Christine Todd Whitman, who as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush at the time of the 9/11 attacks told the public the air around Ground Zero in New York was safe to breathe, has admitted for the first time she was wrong.
Whitman issued a statement. It said: “I am glad to reassure the people of New York … that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.” amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/s…
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Lets see what the world has to say about the #BalloonShotDown The most plausible explanation for the events of the last three days is that the US military has begun shooting down weather and research balloons, with no serious explanation to the public or to the scientific,
meteorological or aviation community about the change in policy. The greatest intended effect of the series of attacks on unmanned aircraft over the US has been, however, the deliberate effort to whip up fear, panic and hysteria with the aim of making the US population feel
threatened by China, which is in reality being systematically encircled by US military assets deployed on the other side of the globe from American soil. wsws.org/en/articles/20…