Since many people are strenuously insisting, by definition, everything ever written in the mainstream is a lie (especially government statistics), if the mainstream media ever runs it, or the source is a government, won't it have to be a lie?
We seem to be backed into a corner here. They say nothing, they're lying by omission; they say anything, they're lying by commission.
As someone who keeps track of the data coming out, can you recommend heuristic for how to sift through all the different media sources, and evaluate them on their individual merits rather than on arguments-from/against-"authority"?
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Re: Cognitive dissonance overload
Date: 2022-04-13 11:26 pm (UTC)Since many people are strenuously insisting, by definition, everything ever written in the mainstream is a lie (especially government statistics), if the mainstream media ever runs it, or the source is a government, won't it have to be a lie?
We seem to be backed into a corner here. They say nothing, they're lying by omission; they say anything, they're lying by commission.
As someone who keeps track of the data coming out, can you recommend heuristic for how to sift through all the different media sources, and evaluate them on their individual merits rather than on arguments-from/against-"authority"?