<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">You like Reason? What makes them superior? Because you agree with them the most? We have to look out for this persistent bias. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8623686742512764907WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what did we learn?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top:6pt;font-size:0.875rem" id="gmail-m_-8623686742512764907gmail-:qf"><div id="gmail-m_-8623686742512764907gmail-:q2"><div><div><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">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.</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">spike<u> OK - good - so what are the alternatives for the average person? bill w</u></span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><u></u><u></u></span></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Do you wish to feed your mind on driven generated by those who majored in… journalism? Neither do I.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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