The avalanche analogy makes me a bit more hopeful for our future.
However, I am sick of telling my family that checking the BBC, Times, Guardian etc etc is not doing anything other than absorbing bought and paid for advertising. The confidence they have in their information even when I show them that the government is their biggest advertiser and the only reason they can still pay the bills i.e. they are owned by the government - it is truly frustrating.
"Is is a reliable source?" is something I keep hearing/reading. What does it take to get through to someone that at least my sources post their sources and I can (and do) check them, yours almost never do. Even when there is a link, it usually to a body that was funded by the same group as the journalist.
The avalanche analogy makes me a bit more hopeful for our future.
However, I am sick of telling my family that checking the BBC, Times, Guardian etc etc is not doing anything other than absorbing bought and paid for advertising. The confidence they have in their information even when I show them that the government is their biggest advertiser and the only reason they can still pay the bills i.e. they are owned by the government - it is truly frustrating.
"Is is a reliable source?" is something I keep hearing/reading. What does it take to get through to someone that at least my sources post their sources and I can (and do) check them, yours almost never do. Even when there is a link, it usually to a body that was funded by the same group as the journalist.
End of rant.