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Comment Re: All news lies (Score 3, Informative) 122

Some lie more than others. Fox had to pay a $787m settlement for lying about voting machines. Internal emails made public showed they knew they were lying to gain ratings.

(Rupert Murdoch has a win-at-all-costs mentality. He'd pit his own children against each other to "spur their competitive juices" but it just created unnecessary family tension. All 3 children admit their father is a jerk that way.)

Comment Elevate critical thinking (Score 5, Interesting) 122

Critical thinking skills should be included with the 3 R's: Reading, (w)Righting, (a)Rithmetic, and Reasoning.

The number of logic fallacies that pundits and trolls use is staggering. Typical examples:

1) A handful of (alleged) members of Group X did bad thing Y, therefore the entirety of Group X is bad. Proportions matter.

2) Guilty until proven innocent.

3) Buzzwords that have no clear meaning: "Weaponizing X", "Grooming kids toward X", "Real Americans", "Elites", "Deep State", etc.

4) If subject matter experts are wrong, then their detractors are right: it's often possible for both to be wrong. (Why one would expect amateurs to usually be better is puzzling.)

5) Slippery slope. The extreme of any viewpoint is usually undesirable, but in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.

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