Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
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The realization that:
*TV news is worthless and is about selling commercials
*Editorials in NYT's and even WSJ are so factually incorrect their board members should be in jail for libel.
*Horizontal integration of industry and media screws lots of news outlets up
*blogs are quickly becoming the voice of professionals/experts in the scientific and even military fields.
*reporters are either willingly ignorant or horribly incompetent at reporting anything scientific, technological or having to do with violence.
*reporters in Reuters, NYT's and the AFP have frequently been caught death and destruction pictures to promote anti-war causes.
*Think tanks are more often than not propaganda machines that have no respect for truth
*A significant portion of the population cares more about their ideology than whether or not their facts are correct.
*Assessment reports (reports written by dozens or even thousands of top experts in a particular field) from mainstream organizations are excellent sources of information. Most people avoid them like the plague though.
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and what is your position? what has this taught you? where do you stand?
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