In other words, don’t think for yourself. Just sit in the corner and listen to liberal media propaganda all day long. Right now, that’s optional. But if the “progressives” get their way, it will become mandatory.
Posted on 01/18/2024 4:44:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The internet has been a huge boon for the accessibility of information. There are very few barriers to consuming classic literature or detailed scientific analyses or catalogues of news reports. There is also an exorbitant amount of garbage information, of course, and an entire universe of people who say stuff that they think will get people to click links that will earn themselves money.
Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. While confidence in American institutions has been in decline for some time, it’s not hard to imagine how the economic incentives of the internet contribute. There is an outsize appetite for derogatory, counterintuitive or anti-institutional assessments of the world around us. This is in part because alleged scandals are interesting and in part because Americans like to view themselves as independent analysts of the world around us.
The result is that there is both a supply and a demand for nonsense or appealingly framed errors. Americans who have little trust in the system can easily find something to reinforce their skepticism. They often do.
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This month, Nieman Lab’s Josh Benton reported on research released last year that showed how people “doing their own research” on the internet often led them to gain more confidence in untrue information. The paper, titled “Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity,” was written by researchers from the University of Central Florida, New York University and Stanford. Their conclusions were straightforward.
“Although conventional wisdom suggests that searching online when evaluating misinformation would reduce belief in it, there is little empirical evidence to evaluate this claim,” the authors wrote. Instead, they continued: “We present consistent evidence that online search to evaluate the...”
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Didn’t Mika Brzezinski say much the same thing some time ago?
“Don’t think... We will tell you what to think.”
Words to that effect?
The Compost allows others to do the research their reporters don’t know how to do, which us why their stories are full of smelly chit.
“If you don’t read the papers, you’re uninformed. If you do read the papers, you’re misinformed”
Mark Twain
Don’t waste your time...
Be like a modern professional journalist and just let the feral government and the WOKE businesses and universities do the heavy lifting.
They will tell you what the day’s truth and science are.
In other words, don’t think for yourself. Just sit in the corner and listen to liberal media propaganda all day long. Right now, that’s optional. But if the “progressives” get their way, it will become mandatory.
If any doofus would be an expert on “being wrong,” it would Philip Bump. Moron.
Didn’t take a whole lot of research to know this article is a masterpiece of claptrappery.
How the heck do we manage to put our feet on the floor to get out of bed every morning? After all how can we even be sure the floor is solid or that we have feet unless we check the experts?
It has become obvious that journalistic studies/majors have become increasingly more biased by your own teachers in "higher education". People are becoming more aware of your crap every day. Hell, the President of Harvard just had to resign for plagiarism. HARVARD, of all the renowned education institutions. Pfft. And you wonder why some MSM companies are going away or on the verge of bankruptcy.
Keep posting your Post crap. There will always be enough non-thinking fools out there for you to cover some wasted salaries.
Why do you have a photo of Madame Curie for a Lincoln quote?
And listening to the MSM isn’t?
Yesterday’s liberals who told us to doubt the man, now tell us to trust only the man.
So was Pfizer doing it’s own research?
Goebbels must be so proud.
Certainly one will get a lot of disinformation using guugle, yahoo, fakebook, AP, CNN etc.
After doing my own research on Russian Collusion with Trump, I determined that almost every last presstitute and journalist LIED THRU THEIR TEETH and willfully engaged in a Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States President, they should all be prosecuted,convicted and HANGED.
PROVE ME WRONG
Didn’t read the article. No clicks for the POSt. Here it is. Everyone is so dumb, imbecilic, stupid, etc. that there has to be a governor controlling who gets information and how the idiots get information. Thank you POSt for the 1984 validation of intent and purpose. Now go follow the science and tell it the sun rises in the west. Sheesh
Anytime you see the MSM pretending to care about truth. Just remember the “Trump colluding with Russia” crap the spouted for 4 years.
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