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Originally Posted by BleedingRed
To be fair the majority of the MSM spread disinformation... Has for 100's of years.
Its only now that when they are challenged by independent media that its a issue.
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Yeah, I think the ideal is that the media is a bringer of information, but it's always going to be filtered through the lens of the people bringing the information.
The democratization of media theoretically is an improvement, but only on the basis of one key assumption: that we can see a variety of media through the producers' different lenses and craft together the truth by doing so. That's proven to be a difficult thing because we as the audience also view reality through our own lens. So we favor the media that matches our predispositions.
As for myself, I can vet a media source by asking if they think that Patrick Mahomes II is the best quarterback in NFL history. If they immediately answer yes, then I can trust them. If they hesitate for even the slightest moment, they become questionable.