[ExI] what did we learn?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, I read journalists fairly often.  I look to them for facts and
opinions, not as a source of what to believe.  A great many things I read
about I wind up with no opinion at all, because it would take so much
research to find out all the facts and evaluate different views that I just
give up.  In any case, there are very few instances in which I need to take
some action.  The big questions,like global warming, I read about a bit,
but leave to experts.  I have no votes.

You like Reason?  What makes them superior?  Because you agree with them
the most?  We have to look out for this persistent bias.

bill w

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> I have changed the way I use the internet in just the past year.  We understand how good news agencies have become at tuning their message to their audience.  Everything became politics, celebrities and news of the weird.  But that isn’t really what our world is about.  Those things are an aspect of it perhaps, but not really what is happening.  If we over-focus on politics, celebrities and news of the weird, we get a distorted view of the world.
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> spike*   OK - good - so what are the alternatives for the average person?    bill w*
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> Hi BillW, filter your sources more carefully.  Do as John suggested: find
> some sites that are not trying to sell you something.  Learn about
> something real rather than listen to the ramblings of a bunch of overhyped
> failed Hollywood stars who majored in… journalism.  Most of the news people
> went to an actual university and majored in… journalism.  They needed four
> years of college to learn how to write a news article?  Why?  And why
> didn’t they ever learn to do one there?  I can do better than their silly
> efforts with no journalism degree at all.
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> Do you wish to feed your mind on driven generated by those who majored in…
> journalism?  Neither do I.
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