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News should only be taken with a grain of salt in 2018

• craftyguy 8y ago
  This is not some new phenomena that didn't exist until very recently. Critical thinking has been required since, well, 'news' was a thing.
  • zaru27 8y ago
    I agree it’s not a new phenomena and never said that it was. I’d argue that our news was historically fair-minded up until the recent mass-scale polarization.
• JauntyHatAngle 8y ago
  More like, news from certain sources should be taken with a grain of salt. There are plenty of good journalists with high reputation that you can certainly take more than a pinch of salt with.
  • rock_hard 8y ago
    Samples?
    • callalex 8y ago
      Anything that hits the front page of nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com for example. Opinion pieces are a different ballgame, obviously.
  • thesagan 8y ago
    Even reputations are hotly debated in this climate. I think a good habit is to read from as many sources as possible, including controversial ones, and making a private determination as to how to weight reporting.
    • solveit 8y ago
      There are enough sources supporting any worldview that there's a real risk that you'll just end up supporting whichever one you started with. I have no idea how you can do better though.
      • thesagan 8y ago
        I struggle with confirmation bias, myself.
  • zaru27 8y ago
    There's no shortage of people who share that same "belief", but would end up writing down a different and conflicting list of people than you, with no loss of accuracy