Bluesky

Madmarsha said

I mean, that's true but I am laughing at the ignorance of the "legacy media" (whatever the heck THAT even is these days) as they struggle with how irrelevant they are becoming. For people in the business of media to be so slow to realize what the rest of us do, that people get their "news" online from podcasts and social media and not from cable or TV news anymore, is the problem. We listened to the newscasters for years because we trusted that they knew more than we, the plebeians, knew. So the problem, more and more, seems to be "them".

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See, I think what we have been gaslit into thinking is that none in the media know what they are talking about and they all are biased is just plain wrong. The problem is that we have all been gaslit into thinking that when the truth is that you just have to check your sources and scrutinize even sources that you think are reliable.

The result of this gaslighting is that we believe whatever any politician tells us and whatever anyone on social media tells us if it fits our world view, confirms what we already think, and it makes us feel warm and fuzzy regardless of if it's true or if they will actually do it.