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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
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.)
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.
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I'm sorry, I'm not getting it. Lying says they are telling you something they know not to be true or worse did or didn't happen. My point is that if you don't believe the perspective is true doesn't make it a lie. Fox News, the whipping boy for this topic, hasn't made up a story that I'm aware of. Many don't like the perspective or the story but that doesn't make it a lie.
Fundamentally, your argument is every Mustang fan that comes on Camaro5 to say they believe the Mustang is a better car is lying, because we here know that isn't true. It's only our opinion. Neither is lying.
So why so many insist that this is a lie rather than a perspective and opinion.
Maybe I could understand your point if you could give me an example where a lie was told. Where a news agency reported that someone said or did something they didn't do and they knew it wasn't true and reported it anyway.