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This is so relatable. Virtually all "news" is entertainment these days. And entertainment is, at its core, a matter of subjective preference.
Well, maybe in the US. Come to Germany and I'll show you the snorefest of the news media here.
I've recently added DW.com to my regular news scan, joining the BBC and the trad USA outlets (AP, Reuters, NPR).
A almost guarantee that 100% of the people who believe clickbait fake news articles from bogus and untrustworthy sources also have never heard of the scientific method. I believe that many older people find critical thinking to be taboo, and prefer to take things at face value because they confuse passivity with wisdom. Why question something when someone will come along any minute to make you feel comfortable anyway…
Now she's widowed. As my father declined with Alzheimer's he tuned into FOX news all day long. Oddly, he became less racist despite this because my wife is black. The more he fell in love with her as his daughter, the better person he became.
My mom still watches FOX news all day long. I know this because my son is living with her right now to help her out and he tells me outrageous stuff she does with her ideas and money. She's a devout Republican now. She hated the Obamas but could never tell me why. She loves Trump, but again she can't tell me why other than she "Likes the way he talks."
Any evidence of truth given to her elicits an "OK" and then she walks away. I have no idea how she went from "always look up the answer for yourself" to believing anything that fits her current worldview as shaped by the television she watches.
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CNN fired Donna Brazile as a contributor after that. CNN's statement: >"On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile's resignation as a CNN contributor. (Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC.) CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomf…
> they get fired as it should be With Brazile, yes, they "accepted her resignation" - not even fired. With other journos, they only fired them after they were caught making stuff up by outsiders. With yet another group, talking heads at CNN make stuff up on a regular basis, but yet they are there because they are "opinion" talking heads. Not just CNN - same with all the other news orgs. Given Donna Brazile's past and…
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It does if you're also in exile from your birthplace due to it having become an authoritarian state.
Maybe some people just prefer the authoritarian model. It is not an objective truth that non-authoritarianism > authoritarianism. That's just, like, an opinion, man. Further: when has Russia not been an authoritarian state?
For a brief time during the Yeltsin years where citizens could elect their own state governors, and not have one appointed by the Kremlin.
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> Fox News is the only major mainstream media source that has completely turned news into dishonest influencing operation. That's is absolutely untrue. The reason you think that is because your pre-existing bias disagrees with them. CNN, HuffingtonPost, Washington Post, etc, etc, etc do the exact same thing, from the other side. Here's a helpful list: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/ Which sites that you read are…
You confuse bias with truthfulness. The distinction was subject of my comment.
this is how pathetic our generation is
Who shares the most real news?
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> One just has to look at Reddit to see that the younger generation is as caught up in all this as any. The study refutes that statement. I'm not saying we're invincible, I'm just saying we're less susceptible. Anyways, afa mental decline with age goes, some of it is random, some of it is genetics, some of it is lifestyle that is 100% in your control.
Perhaps younger people don't share "fake news" because they simply don't share like that. How many people under 30 are sharing news on Facebook? It doesn't mean they're not down the rabbit hole on /r/the_donald or /r/incels. Perhaps the generational divide is not in the what but the how .
And people younger than 30 created them.
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I'vs seen this proclivity in a lot of older military guys. Korea and Vietnam vets. They just split their sides laughing at this stuff. Also, at least in the case of my father and uncle, the fact that people believe a lot of this stuff is what makes it all funny. I honestly don't believe they would be at all interested if no one believed it. I wonder if your dad is ex-military? Of course, all of that's older enlisted…
I'm not ex military but I find Alex Jones legitimately hilarious and I'm astonished people take him seriously. Before I left fb I had an ex-Marine old friend from elementary school on my list and he shared conspiracy memes relentlessly, very much mirroring the stuff Russia used in the 2016 election meddling. He actually believed it. I gave up trying to debunk it and played along.