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Originally Posted by Number 3
He who can afford to tell his perspective more often wins, right?
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I think you have to look at more than just what people are telling you what to think. If there was some type of proposal that someone says is great, you can always look at history and see if that idea was ever tried before. You can ask yourself if it didn't work the previous 10 times it was tried, what makes them say that it will work the 11th time around? It may cause you to think that the person is either really naive, or they simply are lying for some reason.
You can be fairly certain that they are lying, but there's maybe a 20% chance they are naive and a 1% chance they are mentally imparied (drugs, alcohol, illness, etc.)
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And by the way if you consider Glenn Beck, O'reilly or any of those shows "news" you may be part of the problem. Those guys are entertainers plain and simple.
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Unfortunately, there's been a few recent studies that have shown that some of those entertainers have done a more thorough job of investigative journalism than some of the established "pure news" media.
The lines are blurring, because now some editorial programs are better at investigating "news" than the news shows and the news shows seem to have more editorial content than actual news.
The real answer is to watch a little of everything with your mind open and critical thinking mode engaged.