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Someone on TV just asked "how do you determine what is fake news"? WHAT? FAKE means phony/untrue/lies. Do YOU not know what fake means?

Posted - April 9, 2018
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  • 1233
    They didn't ask what fake means. They asked how to recognise fakeness. It is bizarre to me that you can't see that distinction. 

    I guess when you believe everything MSNBC says without question, life is simple. To the rest of us, it's more complex. This post was edited by Zeitgeist at April 9, 2018 8:53 PM MDT
      April 9, 2018 10:51 AM MDT
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  • 10880

    People are born trusting.  It’s hardwired into us.  Unfortunately, as we grow up, we soon learn that people lie and things aren’t always as they seem.  Even so, we still want to trust.  We want to assume that everyone is always truthful and that things are on the up and up … even though we know there’s the possibility that they aren’t.  Even if we’re lied to numerous times, we cling to the hope that we can still trust.  We want to trust that that panhandler alongside the road is actually destitute - not some professional beggar who drives a Mercedes and “begs” 9-5 Mon-Fri.  We want to trust that the evangelist on TV has our best interests at heart and isn’t simply trying to swindle us out of our money.

    People are born curious.  We like to know/be informed.  That’s how we learn.    When something happens, we want to know.  Was that bright flash in the sky a meteorite?  What caused that loud explosion that woke us up at 3 am – a bomb?  A propane tank?  A plane crash?  We want to know the news.

    People want to trust that the news they hear is true.  After all, what point would there be to lie about news?  If something happened then it happened.  Yes, there’s a chance that what we hear isn’t fully accurate, but w want to hear it nonetheless. 

    These days not all the news we hear is true.  Every Tom, Dick and Harriet has an opinion.  Unfortunately, news stations run these opinions as real news.  The station knows they’re only opinions, but they also know that the naive people will eat it up, thus raising their ratings and netting them big bucks!   Just because a news station says or airs something doesn’t mean it’s the truth.  But how can one tell if the news they hear is true or not?  Should people assume that all news is fake news?  It’s not as if everyone can do an in-depth background study on every piece of news they hear.   However, they can check up on it before they rebroadcast it (post it on social networks, gossip about it, etc.).   In war, nations use propaganda to try to mislead their enemy.  Therefore a solider learns quickly not to trust everything he/she hears.  We too need to be leery of the news we hear.  We can’t simply assume that everything we hear is truth – even though we want to. 

      April 9, 2018 5:27 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    For starters we KNOW that Fox News is the propaganda arm of the goofydoofylucy  bogus prez and has been from the get-go. We KNOW they are in love with conspiracy theories and talk talk talk talk about them and promulgate them and promote them and invent them and create them as if they are FACT and the audience..the true believers whose only source of truth is the goofydoofylucy who gets his truth from Sean Hannity, CZAR at Fox news are all happy campers. They embrace a crackpot like Alex Jones. Whatever FOX says the FOXERS embrace because they worship  goofydoofylucy.  And anything to the contrary they despise and soothe themselves by saying they are all lies. It is an incestuous bunch of people who interthink if not intermarry and as a result all the bad genes are combining and that's how they come up with the gibberish nonsense they do. To them it is the truth. To those of us who not infected with that particular disease it's absurd. They conclude first and then make up whatever it takes to reach it. That is  a**backwards but it is the only way they cope. There is no desire or attempt at being sensible or reasonable or logical. They LOVE and WORSHIP doofygooflucy because he promised them a wall which they will never get..promised to bring back coal/steel jobs which will never happen..appoints Conservative judges who will always be super ultra conservative with regard to social services and destroys all consumer protections and rules and laws to keep the environment clean. They do not give a sh** about any of it. They can die from dirty air, infected water and drugs/cosmetics/foods that are tainted because the FDA is gutted as are all the other agencies. They rejoice at whatever he does. They are not what we would call thoughtful. There are so many of them. That is what puzzles me. So many who believe that climate change is a Chinese hoax per the goofydoofylucy. AS they drown in rising seas they will cling to that belief that everything goofydoofylucy said was true. Glug glug glug glug. Thank you for your reply Shuhak. :) This post was edited by RosieG at April 10, 2018 1:24 AM MDT
      April 10, 2018 1:22 AM MDT
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  • 10880
    They've been doing this even before DonWig came to power.  They put on "commentators" who do nothing but spout conjecture and innuendo.  And when they run out of that, they just spout random words (many contradictory, many not making any sense).   There's no more "news" news, just a bunch of BS commentary.  Why should people think for themselves when some news commentator will do it for them?   Heck, some of them even make up news!  And their ratings soar!  And the weak minded (i.e. Donald Chump) eat it up!  
    So long as people refuse to think for themselves, these charlatans will keep on spewing out their propaganda and label it as the truth.
      April 10, 2018 9:48 AM MDT
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