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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just popping in to remind everyone that social media is not a news source. It’s like when my students try to cite their source as google.

And no, it is not the reader’s job to sort through reporting to determine what is right or wrong. If you are having to do this, you need new sources. The first time a source reports something that is false, time to get a new source. [b]This is how we ended up as a society that reads news as if it’s a “choose your own adventure “ book. [/b]

If you don’t want to continue coming across as an uninformed moron, a good place to stsrt is with the chart posted above. Choose some sources in the middle. But realize there will be things in those sources that are hard for you to hear and will be in contrast with what you previously believed. That doesn’t make it untrue.

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A lot of the stuff on social media recites info from legacy media from this chart, it's just consolidated and it's more like reading personal comments at the end of each article, which also often contains links to other articles.  There are also fringe opinions that do not support "left or right" rhetoric and they can range from insane to very insightful and valuable.  They are hard to find in legacy media that likes to cater to the predefined sets of beliefs.  But yes, you will be disturbed by things you will find out that may shatter your world or at least seed doubt.  The way I work around it is that in reality I don't really know and cannot verify the info, so I take most things with a grain of salt.  And read the arguments against.[/quote]

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