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Originally Posted by Schneed10
It makes you realize how little critical thinking people actually do. It used to be something most did, maybe because the news cycle wasn't so fast so people had time to digest information and think about it for a bit. Now it comes so quickly, people just seem to react.
Nobody wants to go through the process of filtering rumor from report, conjecture from fact, or even considering sources. It leads to a lot of stupid shit being bandied about on the internet, sports or otherwise. Is nobody concerned about their reputation anymore? If you get caught up in rumors often enough don't you start to feel stupid, or at the very least gullible? If you read Breitbart and buy into some of their manufactured shit, or Occupy Democrats and fail to recognize how they cherry-pick facts and purposefully omit others, then you're in the same boat as those who believe some blogger on the internet who says KC to San Fran is "all but done".
Let's step it up guys. We are The Warpath, for a long time we've been the smartest Skins board on the net. You have to question everything you hear. Nothing wrong with sharing rumor, but at the very least ask whether others think it can be trusted. Better yet, think about it yourself and offer original thought that's grounded and measured.
Matty this is obviously not directed at you, I just chose your post to reply to.
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Well said Schneed. There's so much noise coming from all sorts of directions that one doesn't know what to believe. Even trusted sources have fallen prey to fake news. I think society was much better off when we didn't have news so readily available. If you didn't read it through the news papers, watch it on the 6 o'clock news or the 6:30pm World News, then you just didn't hear about it.