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People who know how the news is made resist conspiratorial thinking

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Conspiracy theories, like the world being flat or the Moon landings faked, have proven notoriously difficult to stomp out. Add a partisan twist to the issue, and the challenge becomes even harder. Even near the end of his second term, barely a quarter of Republicans were willing to state that President Obama was born in the US.

If we’re seeking to have an informed electorate, then this poses a bit of a problem. But a recent study suggests a very simple solution helps limit the appeal of conspiracy theories: news media literacy. This isn’t knowledge of the news, per se, but knowledge of the companies and processes that help create the news. While the study doesn’t identify how the two are connected, its authors suggest that an understanding of the media landscape helps foster a healthy skepticism.

FK – Well gee I have a ‘journalism degree’ and I’ve worked as a mainstream newswhore so I guess I can tell what ‘news literacy’ is or not huh?

I can tell you this column is blatant propaganda lumping in various ‘conspiracies’ in order to ‘disprove’ them all in the minds of the simple-minded.

Only a political child believes the msm is ‘trustworthy’ or there’s ever been such a thing as an ‘unbiased’ reporter. I’ve known this for decades way before ‘fake news’ became a thing.

But our domestic blood enemies just keep lying about it because of the healthy population of morons we have in this country and the annual fresh crop of indoctrinates from the govt. schools and universities.

If someone tells me they blindly trust any source I know I’m dealing with a child. Now I’m gonna go re-enforce my ignorance on Bigfoot and beef. Not. (And why does this spellchecker claim ‘Bigfoot’ has to be capitalized. That’s rather strange for a non-existent beast.)

And I know exactly how ‘news’ is made: Go along with editorial policy or get fired.

Don’t understand my bad attitude? Start here.

And who wants to bet that commie site blocks me/deletes my comments?

The ONE THING That Keeps People Away from TRUTH!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z5nCfLLr1Q

FK – America, now amerika, has always been about making a buck, from the poorest to the richest. That’s why so many think a famous billionaire is gonna ‘save’ them, instead of looking within themselves for the leadership they crave. Allegedly Ben Franklin said what really brought about the first revolution was the Brits forbidding the colonies from using their script in trade. This collapsed their economies and put lots of pissed off peasants in the pubs where the patriots could preach Liberty and independence to them. A few years later we got lucky when a minority insisted on a Bill of Rights to keep the new con-stitution in its place.

Those far seeing men put ideologies in place that too many today are not culturally or maybe genetically evolved enough to appreciate. The Bill of Rights says ‘no cruel and unusual punishment’ but we have over a hundred million or more who have no problem with the concept that their god, that’s ‘their god,’ created billions of human sheeple knowing full well they’d be burned alive in fire forever after this less than a blink of an existence. We are still a very primitive species living in a still very dark age and a very dangerous time. We could easily backslide a few centuries.

It will be up to that tiny minority as it always is.

As I’ve been writing for years:

Millions will dig the ditch they are told to dig then wet their pants when the machine gun bolts slam home and die stupidly wondering “How did this happen to me?” The tiny minority will have to do what will be required.

It’s time to stop arguing over the culture war. It’s time to stop hunkering down for the apocalypse. It’s time to stop waiting to get beamed up. It’s time to start thinking Normandy.
If you sit home waiting your turn you deserve to have your gun taken from your cold dead hands.

The Founders didn’t wait for the Brits to knock down their doors. They gathered at the green and stood up like men and they killed government employees all the way back to Boston.
What will you do when it’s time to hunt NWO hacks, republicrats and commies(“Liberals” and ‘progressives’)?

Or we can choose to all live on the modern plantation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW8FfeDdGpk

FK – Neither the average patriot nor sheeple is much on logical thought or this would’ve been dealt with long ago. And there are many layers of both of those.