>>3662Point taken, and it's definitely true. I said I don't trust, but it's more accurate to say I seek not to rely trust, and try to let it build up slowly and be lost easily. Matt Christensen is somebody I'd say has a large reserve of trust, as I've followed him for a long time and he has avoided any catastrophic blunders (as far as I know) for as long as I've followed him, and also he defaults to principles rather than pragmatism, which makes it easy to parse his biases. But as you pointed out, ultimately the information will come from someone (and because of tier advantage in resources, probably mainstream media). So I have to either listen to the original breaker of news; do my own research, which is incredibly time consuming and often impossible; or go to someone else who has taken the time to do the research and listen to them.
I'm definitely closer to "I don't trust anything the media says" then not; in fact that is literally my position on the Russia/Ukraine war. But the war is far away from an American like me, and for now at least I can watch the Europeans kill each other at no risk, and so I don't take any side on the issue. But when it's about American politics I feel I must take a position, and so I must learn what's going on.
Honestly, it's so exhausting sifting through media that I have to have a few sources that I can just go to to get news, and not consider over much what they say, but it's so hard to find anyone worthy of this. People like Tim Pool and Phillip DeFranco, who bill themselves as just the facts reporters I've found to be some of the worst people to listen to, as they inevitably do add their opinion in, but disguise it as fact. And so I've developed this super cynical way of consuming news where I need the person to out and out come to a conclusion, so I can judge them for it. Because everyone who makes a living talking about anything has an opinion on said thing, so if they don't make it know I assume they're putting it it their reporting anyways, but being dishonest about it.
Perhaps because of this exhaustion I've developed a deep respect for neutrality and people who keep their political opinions to themselves. The last thing I want to know when I give someone online my attention (or meet someone in the meatspace) is their politics, If someone tells me they don't vote my opinion of them raises sharply.
Though perhaps I'
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