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You basically have to behave as a parsing script with the media now. I find myself immediately scanning the article for links to sources and emphasized data poi
by shadowmore 9y ago
You basically have to behave as a parsing script with the media now. I find myself immediately scanning the article for links to sources and emphasized data points, especially if the headline is clearly exaggerated.
- titanix2 9y agoYes, more that ever we have to be critical of what we read. A problem I see is that some people now distrust so much the mainstream medias that they turn to unreliable or complotist sources of "information". This could be largely avoidable if the existing plurality of opinions were more broadly expressed by publishers. In my country the press developed a whole lexicon of expressions to avoid speaking of any senstive topics. But once you know some keywords and watch what information was left out, you could build a more accurate image of the underlying fact. But that required some awareness.