2/ to remember that over the bast 8 years, half of the country thought they saw the Obama regime subverting democracy, and I thought...
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3/ they were under the spell of some racist conspiracy hallucination about globalism or something. Having stopped writing them off...
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4/ my anxieties over a fading democracy have been assuaged. Now I see the MSM's frame games and manipulation of the "educated" demo...
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5/ as the most prescient threat to democracy.
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Sorry, disagree. They are average humans doing an average sort of job like those in any other sector: cops, programmers, janitors
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If so, the problem is that the collective psychic filter of the nation was left in the hands of average people. I'd wager by design.
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of course. The system isn't designed to make no mistakes, but to be capable of correcting them.
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But somehow fails to correct obviously statistically improbable predictions and dishonest framing of issues 100% of the time?
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that too gets corrected. Yellow journalism 1890s-1910s got displaced by ethical. Going through another reboot now. Normal.
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and don't confuse flawed output of imperfect science (polling) for bad faith.
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a big part of media problem isn't dishonesty it is specialized complexity Gell-Mann amnesia etc https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you …
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Again. Don't buy it. I've seen shoeless Alabaman midwives offer more unbiased, accurate summaries of press conferences than MSM.
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if we're down to pissing contests about comparing life experiences, friends and lifestyles, nothing more to discuss
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