That is the question that should be asked when news hits your mind…..sadly nowadays it seldom is asked.
People have become so complacent that they accept anything as long as they do not have to think about it or it does not contradict their small minded ways.
This situation has been going on for a very long time and it has done its job well for few question the validity of the the news anymore.
A report has been issued that looked at this problem….
US citizens are worryingly poor at differentiating between fact and political opinion. This may not be the news you wanted to hear in an election year, but is the finding of new research led by scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Political Science.
“The capacity to differentiate between a statement of opinion and a statement of fact is vital for citizens to manage the flood of political information they receive on any given day,” said co-author Professor Jeffery J. Mondak in a statement.
In the age of polarizing discourse on social media, viral mis- and disinformation, and AI-generated fakery, sifting through to the facts of a political story is a challenging business. But Mondak and co-author Matthew Mettler believe the problems discerning truth from fiction start even further up the chain.
“There’s a huge amount of research on misinformation. But what we found is that, even before we get to the stage of labeling something misinformation, people often have trouble discerning the difference between statements of fact and opinion,” Mondak said.
https://www.iflscience.com/us-citizens-are-strikingly-bad-at-sorting-facts-from-opinions-73394
If you would like a more ‘political’ analysis then this report would help out….
This report comes out just before the presidential campaigns kick-off in earnest…but people like me have been pointing this out for a very long time and it got much worse in 2010 and has been gaining strength ever since.
People make bold and inaccurate statements and a multitude of small minded bigots latch on to them and pass them off as fact when basically it is pure fiction.
Some of us try to stimulate people’s curiosity to make them look below and beyond the rantings and ravings of bigots and liars….
Our efforts go unrewarded because people are too slow to grasp anything that their tiny minds cannot comprehend.
Please look at all angles of a story to determine if what you see and hear is accurate.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Heck, most of the “news” programs on the air or streaming these days aren’t news at all for the most part. The Pew Trust did an analysis of the so-called “news” media a few years ago and found that depending on the network most “news” broadcasts were really anywhere from 50% to 90% opinion.
Most times op-eds that favor the owners of the news. chuq
I think MTGs ‘Jewish Space Lasers’ was the high watermark of mad disinformation that was readily accepted by the mindless.
Best wishes, Pete.
She does have her way of spinning BS into the main stream….how sad chuq