I'm thinking about how we get our news. As far as TV goes, there's a channel for just about everything. I once heard a statistic that claimed that more people get their news from news satire shows like the Daily Show and SNL than from the nightly news stations. Not verifying that, because its not the fact that counts. Its the idea that it could be true. Plenty more people I talked to last week said that they get a lot of their news from Facebook (from other people's feeds?). I watch Al Jazeera English on Youtube for a lot of my news.
There are the blogs, of course, ones far more current events tilted than this one. They provide not just insanely current news, but also a huge variety of interpretations. If you want something more official, you can get newspapers from all over the world online. Go ahead, read the LA Times, the BBC, and the People's Daily every day.
The number of possibilities becomes the problem. Who can you trust? Sources that have the same political opinions as you? Only primary sources? Or only sources that have a reputation for good reporting? How do you know what's gotten through censors and filters? If you only have time to read one blog a day, what would you pick?
I don't read multiple papers everyday. That's not what I get paid to do. But I've developed a list of media sources and people that I trust to tell me the truth. I don't agree with all of them, but having a balance tends to keep them in check, something I couldn't do without access to lots and lots of sources.
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