Most of the time, if it’s non-political and non-ideological, Snopes and Wikipedia can be given the benefit of the doubt.
But I was taught in school many years ago always to analyze the news, never to take it for granted, and always to think for myself.
In many instances, all you have is probabilities, not complete certainties. For instance, is there a clinton body count? Well, we have plenty of evidence as to clinton’s bad moral character. We have more dead bodies surrounding his path through life than coincidence can account for. Dozens of people who worked for him have turned up dead in suspicious circumstances.
In cases like Ron Brown and Vince Foster, the evidence is circumstantial but, I think overwhelming.
Finally, we know that he has been involved in corrupt and criminal activities. He grew up among the Dixie Mafia in Hot Springs, he was involved with several drug smuggling enterprises, he was friendly even in the White House with drug smugglers, he and his brothers indulged in drugs themselves—cocaine, not just marijuana.
So, is clinton responsible for numerous murders? Probably. I’d say the odds are at least 999-1. But not certainly.
Newspapers used to get things wrong pretty often through sheer laziness and carelessness. When they wrote a story about something you knew about first hand, there were always at least small details that were wrong. For instance, in those recent terrorist stories, not knowing a backhoe from a bulldozer.
But in recent years they have been repeatedly caught telling outright lies or deliberately concealing the truth. So, anyone who trusts them on important matters without doing a bit of checking and analyzing, and considering what grounds they might have to tell a deliberate lie, is a fool.
“So, anyone who trusts them on important matters without doing a bit of checking and analyzing, and considering what grounds they might have to tell a deliberate lie, is a fool.”
As with most websites, it isn’t altruism the keeps them in business, it’s money.
Once in a while, money is used as an incentive to get the truth.
Most of the time, money is used as an incentive to keep the truth hidden.
SNOPES is just on the side of making money.
DRUDGE,KOS, the same.