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It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up.
That’s why insulting people who bash the “main stream media” is essential.
“Pfft. Where do you get your news? Joe Rogan?”
Make it a meme.
The left wants their own Joe Rogan. Perhaps it’s better to destroy him and the idea of him — everyone playing his game, and in doing so, restore faith in facts and truth, and the dedication of rank and file journalists that do their due diligence to report what they actually can verify.
The problem is that the "main stream media" is also shitty and they lie all the time too.
Media literacy means having a sense of which outlets lie about which issues and why. eg: the Wall Street Journal editorials and op-eds are used as a means of introducing lies for commercial advantage, and New York Times politics writers put out puff pieces to maintain access to wealth and power.
Okay, but you kinda have a choice between media that work from a set of principles to get the facts right and a bunch of algorithm-driven influencers who will say whatever it takes to get more clicks. The difference between those two groups has shrunken, and not in the direction of respecting facts either, however I’d say most people get their information from sources that don’t actually do reporting now. They don’t have any loyalty to facts. Most of the mainstream media still have reporters dedicated to principles of neutrality and objectivity. However, people are instead sourcing their information from people that don’t do any actual reporting and that don’t have any commitment to objectivity or neutrality. They simply want to push an agenda, which often involves trying to lie about the facts, ignore them, or present them in some ideologically framed manner.
Dude. Nobody is beyond criticism in a free country.
They want to publish absolute bullshit, it's perfectly fair to call them on it.
Dude. Nobody is beyond criticism in a free country.
I'm sure he would agree, as he was offering his own criticism.
They want to publish absolute bullshit, it's perfectly fair to call them on it.
So go ahead. But that's not what this is about. This is not about reviewing things after the fact, it's about the prejudicial bias used to justify "hand waving" any details. When you "already know you're right" cause "they're always wrong", don't be surprised when nobody cares about what you have to say.
