My recommendation for getting the news is always to have a number of sources that are different from one another rather than just one source or else a number of sources that are very similar, the reason being that any one source is likely to get things wrong. Unfortunately, highly educated liberals and leftists rely on just a limited number of sources, generally the NY Times or the Washington Post, the Nation, NPR, and maybe also CNN. The problem here is that all of these tend to make the same mistakes, so any mistake that one of them makes will be made by the others.
One would think that these people, many of whom can read foreign languages, would look at foreign newspapers just for a different perspective, but they don’t. I knew one such woman who said she started her day by reading every article in the NY Times. I can’t remember if she said she read anything else, but that would require such an enormous amount of time that I can’t imagine that she had time for much of anything else. And she had spent much of her childhood in Europe before coming to America, yet she still was taken in by the idea that one ought to read the NY Times.
Anyway, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has apparently awakened a few liberals to the idea that the ruling-class media isn’t always reliable. See here. Actually, we’ve seen this before with the Duke lacrosse team case, in which the NY Times and all the other ruling-class media were waiting breathlessly for those boys to be put away for years when they suddenly had to report that the prosecutor had been disbarred and the case had been dismissed.
That must have been a big jolt for their readers.
Anyway, it’s the same with the Rittenhouse case. There still seem to be highly intelligent and powerful people out there who think he killed some blacks rather than a couple of white guys. They need to stop what they are saying and doing and figure out what led them to make such a stupid mistake. Can we get them to vow not to be taken in again? Probably not.
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