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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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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I have experienced this repeatedly. Some of the smartest people I know fall victim to ignorance because they don’t understand that they’re tuning into propaganda outlets for their “news”
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Many people make the error of conflating 1) having a college education in the first place 2) where one graduated from and 3) "paying attention" to the news with being intelligent and informed. The truly intelligent constantly examine their premises and are open to contrary POV.
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Your last statement spot on.
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Something has to counter the scenario where puppet masters drop 4 a.m. talking points to media folks, media folks go on air and repeat talking points ad nauseum, social media sheep repeat the same ad infinitum without thought. Rinse and repeat.
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Not surprising. I'm an ivy league grad. The liberals among my ivy league friends are not well informed (they all believe they are). Just like your friend, they rely on the usual suspects (CNN, NPR, NYT, etc) and REFUSE to diversify & add conservative sources. In an echo chamber.
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