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What's worse? 1. People getting 2-3 narratives from mainstream news sources, one of which they believe, both of which are often false. 2. People getting 100 n
by P0l83q4p1Hw3Ul 7y ago
What's worse?
1. People getting 2-3 narratives from mainstream news sources, one of which they believe, both of which are often false.
2. People getting 100 narratives from unknown sources, none of which they fully believe, a handful they think are plausible, most are false.
It's good to have everyone on the same page believing what is true, horrible to have everyone on the same page believing what is false. Given that the mainstream can't be trusted, I'll go with #2.
- ggggtez 7y agoAm I getting a false dichotomy here? Why do we need false narratives at all in the mainstream news? It didn't used to be like that, and there is certainly some reason to expect falsehoods are not inherent and unsolvable.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoWell, when the paper of record's take on the Epstein events is a "what, me worry?" level of incuriosity, I'd say there's a loooooooooooot of problems to be solved.
- dbskdb 7y agoThe trick, though, is filtering out the 98 trash stories out 100. But ya, pizza gate guy broke the Epstein story (honest, look at the court case on unsealing the proceeding records)