Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone. And the libertarian Institute here is a excerpt from knowledge, reality and value. A mostly Common Sense guide to Philosophy by dr. Michael humor, a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, credulity. Humans are born credulous. We instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no, cooperation. We are especially credulous about statistics or other information that, Ones like objective facts.
Unfortunately, we are not so scrupulous when it comes to accurately and non misleadingly reporting facts. There is an enormous amount of disinformation in the world particularly about politics and other matters of public interest. If the public is interested in it, there is bullshit about it. I have noticed that this bullshit tends to fall into three main categories. First ideological propaganda, if you Learn about an issue from a partisan source. For instance.
You're worried about gun control on a gun control. Advocacy website or you hear the day's news from a conservative radio show, you will get pretty much 100% propaganda. Facts will be exaggerated cherry-picked deceptively phrased or otherwise misleading. Normally, you will have no way of guessing the specific way in which the information is deceptive. Making the information essentially worthless for drawing inferences.
Second sensationalism mainstream news sources, make money by getting as many people as possible to watch their shows, read their articles and so on to do that. They try to make everything sound as scary, exciting outrageous, or otherwise dramatic, as possible, third laziness. Most people who write for public consumption are lazy and lack expertise about the things they write about. If a story has some technical
aspect example, science news. Those journalists probably won't understand it and they may get basic facts backwards. Also, they often just talked to one or a few sources and print whatever those sources. Say, even if the sources have obvious biases, finally, a quote by Michael. Malice. The battle is won when the average American regards a corporate journalist, exactly as they regard. A tobacco executive.
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