For me personally, I began to lose trust in the news after I started learning about persuasion and cognitive science. After that, I started seeing manipulative

For me personally, I began to lose trust in the news after I started learning about persuasion and cognitive science. After that, I started seeing manipulative rhetoric and propaganda techniques in articles and news segments that didn’t seem like obvious hit pieces. A skilled communicator has a considerable amount of leeway when reporting “facts”. Journalists like to depict themselves as objective and rational guardians of democracy. But they’re just regular people, and their profession has adopted a mentality of righteousness. I roll my eyes every time I see “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on WaPo’s website.