In college they told us about propaganda and bias and how these things are bad. Then we had to put various media outlets on a chart from "reliable" to "unreliable". One could receive a poor grade on this assignment In college a professor taught us that media fools the public, and stories are repeated until people think they are true. One example was the hysteria following the "War of the Worlds" broadcast. Apparently she did not know that stories of hysteria are, themselves, myths

Once upon a time, every year for three years straight I was able to go to a meeting of a couple dozen regular nobodies like myself at which a Bishop would answer questions.
And every year, the same young woman would ask the same question: what about "deaconesses"? And every year he would graciously give her the same answer.
And so, every year, this woman disrespected the time and energy of the Bishop, and everyone present, and took away a chance of some other conversation or question. She already knew the answer. But there were always