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In my experience there are some good tests for this on various noteworthy political events in recent times. For example if you think that President Trump gave
by fareesh 8y ago
In my experience there are some good tests for this on various noteworthy political events in recent times.
For example if you think that President Trump gave a press conference in which he referred to neo Nazis as very fine people, you are in a bubble because the context and quote are the exact opposite which he later clarifies when asked by the reporter, saying "I'm not talking about the Neo Nazis".
If you believe that Hillary Clinton sold 20% of the USA's uranium to Russia in exchange for donations then you are in a bubble because that characterization is missing several key pieces of information.
People treat future events based on what they have preconceived in these erroneous ways. The media distorts something with a tiny grain of truth into a narrative, and that narrative is what remains as a criteria for filtering future information.
When you interact with ideologically entrenched folks, you can easily poke holes using examples like this. If they are reasonable they will recognize what has happened to them. If not reasonable, there will be cognitive dissonance and excuses as to why their belief is still right. The latter are not worth engaging with further because it's an uphill battle that will likely yield no progress.
Media organizations like CNN and Fox News have become brazen in this regard. Recently CNN had a participant on a panel masquerading as a Trump voter, who was revealed to have a YouTube channel that espoused the exact opposite view. On a similar panel, key parts of answers on voter fraud were edited out of the final broadcast to make the respondent look uninformed, when they had, in fact, answered the question citing sources and narrating a great deal of information.
Market forces have moved the keepers of the "Gated institutional narrative" further towards the new clickbait, ideological, tabloid brand of journalism, and we are all worse off for it.