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[quote=Anonymous]Let's get a few things straight right off the bat:

1) There are 320 million people in the country. Only about 2, maybe 3 million of them watch Fox News.

2) Similarly, only about 1.5 million, maybe 2 million watch MSNBC.

So, while cable news has eradicated the discourse, it doesn't quite have the impact people think it does. It's more the mindless repetition of the talking points from both that OP talks about. That's a problem. It's more a social media problem than it is a problem about the origins of the lies.

I agree that teaching critical thinking in schools is a good way to fix things, but that will take a generation. But in the meantime, we can stop pretending that certain things are worthy of equal discussion (i.e., "intelligent design" or other faith-based notions that aren't supported by empirical evidence) and ridding ourselves of our testing culture.

We should also engineer a complete and total backlash against the Internet and the echo chamber it presents.

This is a cultural thing. [/quote]

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