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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Ford, do you believe the guys who mine bitcoin are making actual money?
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Nope. They're converting electricity into a virtual commodity.
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Originally Posted by Not Insane
It was there, just harder to prove. I dumped TV in 1997 because I got sick and tired of the network news (I've never had cable) giving me the raw facts interspersed in their story, but then giving me a story that didn't match the actual raw facts they just gave me.
And then there is Walter Cronkite and the Tet offensive. He reported it as if we had lost the war when, in fact, it was the "all in" push by the Viet Cong and we held up. We were on the edge of victory, yet his reporting told the exact opposite story, empowering the anti-war mob and causing our tail between our legs abandonment of that country.
We didn't have the internet sources fact checking the news back then. Even when we cought them red handed, who was going to report it? And in that last sentence is a key to why I respect non-MSM sources more than the MSM. For those that think the MSM is so honest, think about the out of court settlement between Nick Sandman and the Washington Post: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...shington-post/
And notice the source. And their reporting was absolutely in the vein of what Cronkite did, except there are other sources that reported the TRUE story.
This is the MSM we live with today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdO5Gf9NRAo
This is why non-MSM sources are killin' it. |
But it's also why people don't know who to trust and why everything has become so fragmented. Example back on topic: when someone says something like "wear masks" there's always something else out there to point back and say "fake news." It's information overload with no sifter sorting fact from fiction without bias. It was generally investigative journalists that did that, which resulted in articles that are pages and pages long. Most people today don't have the patience to digest that much information. Everything boils down to headlines. It's a problem and I don't see any solutions.