Posted on 05/17/2021 5:44:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
OK, I'll start by not falling for Rachel Alexander's misdirection in recommending conservatives only source MSM narratives and mostly disregard alternative and blog sources, ... why she might even be a shill.
Most people use “Fake News” to merely mean “I don’t like it, I disagree with it”. No need to refute it, just whine “Fake news”.
Equally disgusting and common on the left and the right. A phrase that has hurt more than helped the country.
That is certainly true. Not only that, but for some reason, people think news should be accurate. It’s merely there to make money. No truth is required. The media has always been tribal, it will stay such as long as it makes money.
How are we supposed to know the truth?
People get mixed up.
You are the PRODUCT, not the CONSUMER.
So you think 94.9999% of the news isn’t about politics?
*bada*boom*kisk*
If you want truth go the the Lord.
If you want lies go to men.
Or as they say: in God we trust, all others pay cash.
What is truth?
Seems like that question was asked in a book that has been around awhile.
Simple question isn’t it? But if one can answer that question, it will help in the journey.
A few thoughts:
1) We have been sold on the idea that truth is relative, relative to the situation. That is true. Humans and situations are complex. Can we know our own hearts and every heart and fact involved in a situation.
2) We like simple answers. We don’t have to think about them. Simple answers put us in control of the situation. Complex answers of pros and cons don’t taste as good.
3) There is Absolute Truth. Relative truth does not exclude Absolute Truth.
4) The truth is a rare commodity. Look up the definition of commodity.
5) A prior poster wanted to know how to get the truth. The truth is going to COST you. Time, thinking, money, experience, failure. Few want to pay the price.
I would much rather get the information in printed form.
Do you think we can reverse the trend?
She posts a lot of the fake news I see, especially from Clown Hall.
Surely, with a little thought, you can answer that on your own........................
No not really. I’m not lazy, I am likely the most informed person I deal with on a constant basis. I study and read several points of view and dozens of news stories daily about the major issues of the day.
Election fraud: I know that there was cheating. There always is and will be. Over 50 years Kennedy was elected in the graveyards of Chicago and Democratic held strongholds in Texas. I have read hundreds of articles and am no closer to the truth on what happened. The hyperbole on both sides makes it impossible to know what really happened.
COVID Treatments and prevention: What works? Try and chase this down.
Russia, Russia, Russia: Was it a diabolical coup attempt and few idiots doing stupid things?
What is really happening with the Arizona Audit? Some crazy claims are being made that don’t make any sense. And yes, I think Trump won AZ and other battleground states. But, I sure wish to hell, I could get a straight, provable story without a total slant.
There is no straight answers on a hundred things I am interested in.
“The simple fact that we still have Q followers demonstrates the problem clearly. A source of disinformation can totally discredit itself and still have loyal supporters and followers.”
Yup. It was a brilliant psyop and completely brainwashed a bunch. They are hopeless now. Try to reason with them, you get personal attacks—same as the left does.
And the “Ashley is still alive!” crowd...jeeze.
In my best “Hee Haw” voice, “If it weren’t for fake news, we’d have no news at all.”
The whole idea of an unbiased media is not only silly, but recent.
For most of the last few centuries, each political faction had their own newspaper. We have the ‘Press Democrat’ where I live, I know of papers that have “Republican” in the name, several that have “Independent”, too.
I never trust any source; any issue I run across that moves me I will *ALWAYS* look for information from the opposite side that refutes the claim. Left or right, until I’ve examined the arguments on both sides I regard myself (and others who haven’t also done this) as ignorant.
Easy to do if you STOP LETTING THE MEDIA SH-T IN YOUR SKULL.
Why do you watch/listen to CRAP like Fox and the Alphabets - they are ALL CRAP.
- but you’ll find people hanging on every dingleberry that drops from the media bunghole.
The power of the media is their ability to set off lemming stampedes - learn to live outside the lemming herd or you’ll go over the cliff with them.
Like this article?
It is a good place to start.
and then send them a couple hundred bucks every month ...
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