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Serious question. Why do people believe this article? (Nothing to do with Al Jazeera, I think it's a refreshing change from Western media and this article has
by aaron695 6y ago
Serious question.
Why do people believe this article?
(Nothing to do with Al Jazeera, I think it's a refreshing change from Western media and this article has also been in CNN and Fox)
- Mashimo 6y agoIt's from reuters who a citing a 2019 study by WWF International https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-much-plastic-are-you-eating https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-much-plastic-are-yo... Or was it more of a general questions, why do people believe the media?
- aaron695 6y agoI guess my question is, with perhaps my bad assumption - People know Reuters is not always correct. Why believe this story? Under what conditions do they not believe. Under what conditions do they believe. Again, perhaps a bad assumption, eating a credit card each week would not make sense to most people. Why believe it's true? When does media override personal beliefs?
- ben509 6y agoI didn't. The pictures show one meal, and then the plastic consumed over a week. They could have shown the amount of plastic likely to be in a single meal, but it wouldn't have been as dramatic. And I know that they explain it in the captions. That's a dodge, they know people don't read the captions and they certainly aren't emotionally influenced by the captions. So I immediately wrote it off as dishonest.