by framersqool:
READ: Study shows ‘striking’ number who believe news misinforms - “Americans don’t seem to think that the national news organizations care about the overall impact of their reporting on the society”
Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.
The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive.
In the Century of Stupid, the news is what you decide it is by leaving a data trail of which news you click on, which delivers other news because you said it was what you wanted to believe, which is misleading because you believe what you are told to believe, but it turns out some of you believe the wrong things, and this is in urgent need of correction, by robots more intelligent than you are, who you believe are trying to trick you, but you only believe that because you clicked on the wrong news and caused it to trend, but if you watch Google's cartoons, you will then click on better news, and believe it, only you don't, because the news says you don't.
Or something.
When the debunking of conspiracy theories has itself become a debunked conspiracy theory because it is trending, the news will (mis)inform you that debunking the debunking must be prebunked, and you won't believe it because this has now been debunked as a conspiracy theory. Unless you do, which will have you click on items that support this belief, which will be false until the prebunked news of new news trends says it isn't - which won't be a conspiracy theory because conspiracy theories have now been prebunked into a debunked conspiracy theory.
Stay tuned for more news.
Just don't count on any of it being factual because the news says you shouldn't believe the news. Or you just don't, but you should, and if you only did, you would believe the news the news wants you to believe until new trending news, made to trend by you, tell you what to believe next. Only you might not, but they can help with that and trend you into trending better trends, which agree with the news, which is a democratic institution you must trust because if you don't, this means you are a violent authoritarian vaccine denier, but according to Gallup/Knight Foundation, more than half of you already are.
Or something.
framersqool
framersqool is an aging bachelor of no particular consequence. He is in command of more opinions than facts (but occasionally the facts, or the lack thereof) and can make a thing seem worth writing about.