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08/24/24: Quoting Chaucer again, I see (!)
I recommend reading all of Walter Kirn's "How America Lost the Plot," an interview in Palladium magazine (Matt Ellison July 25, 2023)
An excerpt pertinent to the garbage printed in the Daily Mail, NY Times, Guardian, anything farted out of the asses of CBS/NBC/ABC News, NPR, Yahoo, Bloomberg, MSNBC/CNN and all the rest of the state regime / Uni-Party of America media-censorship-industrial complex:
Walter: ... Over the last few years, we’ve been told that there are certain infallible organs of truth: the intelligence community, Science with a capital S, mainstream media, etc.
It was my privilege to meet a physicist named Murray Gell-Mann [1929-2019] who discovered the subatomic particle known as the quark. But he also is the namesake for a principle of skeptical inquiry called the Gell-Mann Effect.
When you read one article or piece in a newspaper on a subject you happen to know something about and you find it to be misinformed, wrong, or even deceptive, why do you then assume that the same paper is accurate about subjects that you don’t know about?
Why would you extend credence to that source on other topics when you’ve caught it lying or being wrong about one you do know about?
... A certain amount of wrongness can be put down to just error and mistaken-though-well-intentioned failure.
But after a while, that no longer explains it and you start to see almost systematic wrongness on certain topics particularly. So why do we keep going back to the well for poisoned water?
... Between the deceptiveness, the agenda-driven nature, and the social-media-oriented vapidity of the press, it is no longer a reliable source of information about the world.
[Repeated for emphasis:]
The press is no longer a reliable source of information about the world...