Just had a fascinating conversation with my smartest friend who is also anti-Trump. He says he gets his news from CNN, MSNBC and the NY Times. So I tested him to see the quality of his general knowledge on the hydroxychloroquine story.
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What fascinates me the most about this situation is that my friend is an Ivy League graduate and easily in the top-five-percent of well-informed people in society, and he pays attention to the news. He was shocked when I told him how much "news" (context) is kept from him.
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If you think this is a criticism of the left, you're only partly right. I'm criticizing anyone who doesn't sample the news from both left and right. But I do observe that conservatives are far more likely to know the story on both sides because "mainstream" news is ubiquitous.
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Also, my friend had never seen the Russian troll farm memes (which looked like a sixth grade project) so he actually believed those memes changed the election. No one who has seen them believes that.
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He also believes that if 17 intelligence agencies say something is true, it's because all 17 independently looked into it. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that. In the real world, a few people in one agency have an opinion and the rest say it sounds good to them.
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He also believed it is a fact that Russia hacked the DNC. It might be a fact. It might not. But we certainly don't KNOW it to be true.
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If you could limit to just a few (6, say) what do your news inputs look like, Scott?
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CNN and FOX News daily, then I sample sources from both sides (generally from Twitter links) wherever they lead.
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Haven't watched CNN/MSNBC/CBS/ABC news since Obama was re-elected & avoid WaPo/NYT Haven't watched CTV/CBC/Global news since 2015 CDN fed election & avoid TorStar Use Twitter as a news aggregator, mainly centrist & right-leaning media & columnists Took a long time to set up.
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U should try Epoch Times, they have actual sources (underground) in China & go into details, with evidence, about how they are responsible for this virus.
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My favorites are x22report and black conservative Patriot both YouTube channels
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