<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 7:10 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-686586411530230361"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-686586411530230361WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Mainstream news is better?  How?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They lie less often and less blatantly.  Not never - I'm sure you can think of a number of examples - just to a lesser degree.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-686586411530230361"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-686586411530230361WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">regarding that hammer business: why are we not being shown the police video?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because the police have not released it.  That's not the media's fault.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-686586411530230361"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-686586411530230361WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">And why do we still have so many unanswered questions about the guy who appears to have led the Jan 6 riot on the capitol, Ray Epps?  Where is he, and why can’t the FBI find him?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Apparently he was framed.  The FBI, knowing this, has no need to arrest him.  Source:  <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html</a><br><br>That you are asking these questions, which are trivially answerable (with some honest quick searching in the latter case), suggests that your choice of media is lying to you.  The "echo chamber" you are being warned about masks these lies.</div></div></div>