Why do people still use clearly biased media as a source of information?

[billeau2]

Yeah that's my own way too. Centrism has truly died lately.

What should frighten people is that in times past, good source material meant articles of a good average length. This length has gotten smaller and smaller.

[BoloShot]

What should frighten people is that in times past, good source material meant articles of a good average length. This length has gotten smaller and smaller.

Hell you should read the economist man they have lengthy and informative articles with minimal political projection. It's mostly crunching numbers and analysing their real world effects. The writers aren't credited for their articles deliberately so they're not incentivised to write salacious hit pieces to get their names out there. Here and there they make blunders but it's overall okay.

[EDD1]

Hell you should read the economist man they have lengthy and informative articles with minimal political projection. It's mostly crunching numbers and analysing their real world effects. The writers aren't credited for their articles deliberately so they're not incentivised to write salacious hit pieces to get their names out there. Here and there they make blunders but it's overall okay.

The Economist is a great source man, unfortunately, too many people see a lengthy article and have weak comprehensive reading skills and that's when they click right back into Boxingscenes comment threads lol for better stimulation

[billeau2]

The Economist is a great source man, unfortunately, too many people see a lengthy article and have weak comprehensive reading skills and that's when they click right back into Boxingscenes comment threads lol for better stimulation

Its a "chicken vs Egg" type thang. Did it start with the media dumbing down? Or with people demanding that the media start dumbing down? All I know is that when I was a kid reading a piece in the Village Voice, the main article generally ran through the length of the paper. Scientific American? Pieces averaged at least ten pages and there were no press releases. Now the Village Voice has been destroyed by Murdoch and Scientific American has all these press releases in it, along with shorter articles.

I notice this trend everywhere. It is very disturbing. I taught College and High School and noticed that the new Common Core curriculum tells kids there are "good texts and bad texts" then proceeds to encourage them to use reading as a pedantic process of taking trivial information out of a text. Kids should be encouraged to read anything that interests them and to enjoy it. I can't help but think this is deliberate an attempt to make kids hate to read. If it isn't then they are really dumb.

[BoloShot]

The Economist is a great source man, unfortunately, too many people see a lengthy article and have weak comprehensive reading skills and that's when they click right back into Boxingscenes comment threads lol for better stimulation

I have a subscription and I'm a bit of a bookworm and read rapidly anyway so I dig into it happily. It's a good read always, someone here told me I'm most likely biased for using it as a source of info which is just lol worthy, must be a CNN or Fox only kind of guy.

[talip bin osman]

i guess self validation is more important than seeing the thing really objectively...

i feel no one is spared from this...

we just differ from how intense our cognitive biases are...

[Rockin']

Be it Fox, Vox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. none of these guys tell you the truth. People are idiots if they believe them and stop posting them as proof of anything. An editorialised hitpiece isn't proof, it's produced not by journalists but activists. Mainstream media is a joke, it's partisan no matter what and not worth paying attention to. Every fact is a spin or made up, turn off your TV if you don't want to be brainwashed. There's a reason it's a dying medium, they tell what to think, not how to think.

It's because they are like human cattle. Mindless and partially mentally disabled, eating whatever you feed to them.......Rockin'.

[Eff Pandas]

Sh^t in the US what IS a unbiased media source. Idk if there is such a thing anymore. Certainly not for political sh^t there isn't.

[BoloShot]

Sh^t in the US what IS a unbiased media source. Idk if there is such a thing anymore. Certainly not for political sh^t there isn't.

Europe is even worse dude. It's an echo chamber of "liberal" (leftist) values endlessly, I'm sick of it tbh.

[BoloShot]

Its a "chicken vs Egg" type thang. Did it start with the media dumbing down? Or with people demanding that the media start dumbing down? All I know is that when I was a kid reading a piece in the Village Voice, the main article generally ran through the length of the paper. Scientific American? Pieces averaged at least ten pages and there were no press releases. Now the Village Voice has been destroyed by Murdoch and Scientific American has all these press releases in it, along with shorter articles.

I notice this trend everywhere. It is very disturbing. I taught College and High School and noticed that the new Common Core curriculum tells kids there are "good texts and bad texts" then proceeds to encourage them to use reading as a pedantic process of taking trivial information out of a text. Kids should be encouraged to read anything that interests them and to enjoy it. I can't help but think this is deliberate an attempt to make kids hate to read. If it isn't then they are really dumb.

It's brainwashing, most of my schooling experience has been that. I used to get a lot of flak for doing some independent thinking on certain issues to my mostly socialist teachers.