It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, CA have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. Now they’re often unsure what to trust
It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, CA have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. Now they’re often unsure what to trust
Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
That’s why insulting people who bash the “main stream media” is essential.
“Pfft. Where do you get your news? Joe Rogan?”
Make it a meme.
The left wants their own Joe Rogan. Perhaps it’s better to destroy him and the idea of him — everyone playing his game, and in doing so, restore faith in facts and truth, and the dedication of rank and file journalists that do their due diligence to report what they actually can verify.
The problem is that the "main stream media" is also shitty and they lie all the time too.
Okay, but you kinda have a choice between media that work from a set of principles to get the facts right and a bunch of algorithm-driven influencers who will say whatever it takes to get more clicks. The difference between those two groups has shrunken, and not in the direction of respecting facts either, however I’d say most people get their information from sources that don’t actually do reporting now. They don’t have any loyalty to facts. Most of the mainstream media still have reporters dedicated to principles of neutrality and objectivity. However, people are instead sourcing their information from people that don’t do any actual reporting and that don’t have any commitment to objectivity or neutrality. They simply want to push an agenda, which often involves trying to lie about the facts, ignore them, or present them in some ideologically framed manner.