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   Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:04:04 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   Do you think there are any truly credible sources of news and information?

   I feel like anymore when I read something, I need to do further research, and find second or third sources for verification. So many headlines are click bait half truths, hyperbole, or just full on lies and don't get me started
   on YouTube "News".

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     OkayKay 🇨🇦 (okaykay@ottawa.place)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:04:03 JST OkayKay 🇨🇦

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     @RickiTarr
     And that is exactly what the right-winger set out to accomplish. To make us doubt everything. Now if we are presented with an obvious truth, we've been brainwashed to question it.

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     Ether Diver (etherdiver@ravenation.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:05:44 JST Ether Diver

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     @RickiTarr you always have to consider the biases and structural limitations of your news sources. Always. There's exactly zero sources you can take at face value without reflection/critical assessment.

     Not just now, but throughout all history and going forward forever as well. It's the nature of humans and news gathering/reporting.

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     rhetorical answers (swordplay@tooters.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:05:54 JST rhetorical answers

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     @grumpasaurus @RickiTarr

     Find out if your local station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group - a political project I find to be modeled after Fox News Corp.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

     There's a link in the first section of that article to an article about Nexstar Media Group. Between the two, they own upwards of 80% of all 'local' stations.

     Local radio is in a similar situation.

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 08:05:55 JST Allan Chow

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     @RickiTarr the news sources I trust the most are local radio and tv

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