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I just googled the readership of NY Times and yes - they have increased digital subscriptions - why - because Trump got elected. People would be using it to wipe their ar*e if it wasn't that the liberals are flocking to it, like those on the board, to get any little tidbit of fake news on Trump.
This is not just a US problem - newspapers around the world are languishing because of the internet and the ability to actually use your mind by reading multiple sources for free and then deciding for yourself how much of each is truthful.
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Originally Posted by Travelassie
What you don't seem to understand is that it's painfully obvious to anyone with any reading comprehension, reasoning ability and enough curiosity to do his/her own research (not just reading incoming email from Media Matters and other left wing slop), that these bastions of so-called journalism are full of inaccurate, misleading half-truths, speculations and downright fabrications passed off as fact, ie, "fake news".
No one needs Trump to point that out, it's obvious.
And just WHERE are you doing this research and HOW are you verifying the veracity of your sources?
The LA Times currently has article after article about how Trump is going to deport immigrants. They never never say he is going to deport Criminal Illegals.
Or so they claim. Makes me wonder, though, why when I, as a reader who does not subscribe to the NYT, click on a link at a website to an NYT article, get a popup ad telling me that they need my help, and offering me an online subscription at 40% off.
But I can't say I'm surprised at the report of all the lefty Trump haters flocking to the NYT trough, to consume the latest and greatest anti-Trump garbage put out by this (LOL) bastion of "great journalism". Guess the excitement takes their minds off the sourness of those grapes.
SO now we are reduced to discrediting a newspaper because of marketing, come on.
Disagree. I would say FOX news also falls under the same fake news "umbrella" as CNN, etc. If they are from the "mainstream", they are automatically suspect and *not* to be trusted imo
The bottom line is if you value your brain-cells and your mental health/sanity you should STAY AWAY from leftist echo-chamber outlets like CNN and the "mainstream media"
I'm thinking maybe the Magic 8 Ball with tea leaves being a close second..
LOL, some of us have lives outside the Trump-bashing threads on the CD forum.
But to answer your question, when I research a topic online, I try to read what I can about it from as many sources as possible, including both liberal and conservative sites, I read them carefully so as to understand the message they're trying to bring to their readers, what's emphasized and what's left out (as best as I can tell) in the report. Depending on the topic, I may go from there to available original sources, these can include transcripts of programs, copies of bills passed in Congress (or State Legislatures,), court documents, old local newspaper articles (the internet Wayback Machine is great for that), articles from professional journals. I do my best to find sources that aren't mired in the controversies surrounding the topic (s), and that don't have any axe to grind one way or the other, that just provide whatever information is available to them. It's not always possible, and I find I just plain have to reserve judgement when I can't find substantiated facts, it's a matter of pride to me not to just accept someone else's opinion of a topic because as a conservative/independent/moderate/liberal that's what I'm expected to do, and I will be damned if I buy into the propaganda rampant in too many sources for the same reason.
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Last edited by Travelassie; 02-18-2017 at 05:47 PM..
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