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Bruce Tracy's avatar

Spot on. As a corollary to your proposition, people have stopped deep diving into main stream media because 1) they have been told not to believe it, 2) they shouldn't believe it, 3) the journalistic method (which I learned in Jr. High School) has been tipped on its head (the real information is no longer contained in the first paragraph, but hidden somewhere near the end).

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hierochloe's avatar

yes, it's not accurate to reduce the problem to "oh everyone are dipshits who don't know any better", although there's a fair amount of it

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