[ExI] what did we learn?

[John Grigg]

"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.



Do you wish to feed your mind on drivel generated by those who majored in…
journalism?  Neither do I."


Dang! And here I thought people only picked on English majors! Lol


https://www.prairiehome.org/story/1997/06/14/the-lives-of-english-majors.html



On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:25 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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