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Cecily Jackson's avatar

“those willing to read and listen to facts and carefully weigh other’s opinions before forming their own opinions, seem to be a dying breed in an era in which misleading memes, reels with little context—and outright lies shape public perception.”

It is sickening. I was listening to a coworker the other day and he was going on about some twisted BS that he heard. When he brought it to my office, I told him that I don’t care to discuss politics at work. He continued. Luckily it was after hours and most everyone was gone, so I made a comment to him about the issues that impacted our health center in particular. He couldn’t speak to that. I told him because that information doesn’t show up in memes and posts. I laid out three facts in particular that could have dire financial consequence to our health center (I was speaking to our Director of accounting). I asked him why someone in his position was not aware of these particular failures in our government. He couldn’t respond. I told him that’s the difference between reading bullshit on Facebook and Fox News and actually doing the research for himself.

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Daniel Parker's avatar

Very well said. I've noticed the same thing. The media won't allow anyone to take a breath. Instead of journalism, it's continual what ifs. Keep the story rolling no matter the cost. We need mainstream honest brokers like a Cronkite. Where are they?

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