excerpt from the badlands piece bitt linked up thread:
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Recently, I heard a couple of Badlanders argue about how one should process information that is reported to us from the media. One essentially said that everything should be assumed to be a lie until proven true, and the other said everything should be received from a place of neutrality, and then one should determine whether it is true or a lie. Neither said that everything reported by the media should be assumed true until proven untrue.
In this argument, I would have to side with the former: it is healthier to assume everything the media reports is a lie or manipulation of the truth until proven true.
The media has proven to us they are untrustworthy, and their purpose is to deceive us.
I’m guessing you were listening to “Defected” (or maybe DPH).
I can’t express how much I value the Badlanders who create these streams/podcasts and argue about this topic.
To me, the most important part of it is not one argument or the other, but the fact that they are arguing at all, the fact that they are raising these questions. They are making people THINK.
My method - I don’t watch, read or listen to MSM. :-D