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Fake news only carries weight because people have been indoctrinated into blindly accepting appeals from authority and failing to engage in the most basic kinds
by lx3459683 8y ago
Fake news only carries weight because people have been indoctrinated into blindly accepting appeals from authority and failing to engage in the most basic kinds of critical thinking.
- bena 8y agoFake news is nothing new. We used to call it yellow journalism. It actually got us into a war.
- jessaustin 8y agoMany wars, that is. Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria...
- ataturk 8y agoSpanish American War. You might as well say the NY Times caused that war--they lied the American public straight into conflict over the USS Maine.
- jessaustin 8y ago'ataturk you appear to be hellbanned, so I can't respond directly. (to see this yourself open this page in incognito mode) Your observation about NYT is correct, although their actions in fomenting that war were hardly worse than in the later wars I mentioned.