alex3619
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Mark Twain I think - "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed." Media news is essential to modern democracy and thought, but that does not absolve you from the need to be critical. With the upgrade from propaganda to fake news this is even more important.Words found in politics or news media are shiny objects, meant to distract. It has been so since the first cave-man found that they could rule a handful by club, hundreds by charm. "Believe none of what you read and half of what you see" That was written 150 years ago; post Internet, change 'half' to 'almost none'.
Investigative journalism took another big hit here in Australia with yet another newspaper firing a lot of journalists.