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In reply to the discussion: Borowitz: 'Stopping Trump is short term solution'' [View all]A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Thus my mentioning of selfish purposes, you really need to know who is providing you the information to give it the proper weight in your decision making. You also need to know who owns the providers of your news. Are eggs good for you, Is coffee good for you? Should you use the Atkins diet, the low fat diet, etc. to name just one category of information that can leave you confused because the answers seem to change every year. Now chocolate is good for me? Seems like a short while ago I was told to avoid it. Even many "news" segments on the television and radio news are no more than paid advertisements.
But yes for most things you can eliminate much of the confusion, but that raises the question of how do you determine what is a good source? And when do you realize there has been a change. At times it seems to be overwhelming. Take people my age, back in the day we always trusted network news, now not so much, but how long of a transition period was there for me to realize that there had been a change? And why should I believe the people that tell me not to believe? The self education never seems to be able to take a break.