July | 2018 | Common Sense Debate

What is Fake News? Does it even exist?

We used to think we could get some of the most important facts about what is happening in the world from network television.

Where can we get unbiased news reporting without being channeled through only the top news clicks or stories of the day?

Do you read the newspaper, listen to radio, or watch television. Is that where you get your facts? Perhaps you believe Facebook is your ultimate resource. Maybe you Google your facts.

Is there any reason to believe your network provider or search engine is delivering all of the available unbiased facts?

Are you confident that your internet sources are correct, unbiased, immune to just covering those events with the highest ratings or clicks?

Where can we go to get the real truth so that we can make our own decisions?

The internet is full of options. Check the search phase “unbiased news reporting 2018” if you are looking for options and opinions. One of the best I have found is:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/

It lists sources according to least biased, left leaning bias and right leaning bias. This is a good opportunity to compare some of the choices and draw your own conclusions.

Associated Press, Pew Research, Factcheck.org and others are listed under the category of least biased reporting facts. But, you have to read several sources to really be sure you aren’t being steered to someone else’s agenda.

If you are tired of the latest headline scandals in national news, use your internet to research what is really important. Don’t allow the networks and media stars to mold your opinions and thinking down their political rabbit hole.

Check out a Pew Research quiz that tests your ability to determine fact and opinion. It is only 10 questions and is one of the most interesting research quizzes they have put together at:

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/news-statements-quiz/

Can we all use a little less retweeting and facebook posting of statements that may or may not be rooted in fact? Commonsense discourse and honest debate on all topics is in all of our interests if we want to continue to promote freedom of choice in our democracy.

Let’s all commit to getting the facts, not spreading our version of the truth, and see if we can all come together on commonsense issues. We may still disagree, but at least we will disagree based on facts and not some fiction, so called Fake News, or untruth.

-Talking Haid

Some people will tell you that there is no real discussion of politics in the home, the dinner table, and especially in mixed company outside the home. But it is this lack of discussion that raises generations of people who may not be exposed to the many sides of potential political options.

Labels help us pigeonhole what we think of the various people we meet, but seldom does the label Democrat or Republican, and Conservative or Liberal capture every person’s essence.

It is even worse in the areas of social media platforms, where one post can get you friended or even unfriended over what you think is an innocent belief that covers only one small subject in your mind.

You post something you think most of your friends also believe, but in fact you have posted or shared a belief that may be shared by 50 % of your friends and acquaintences and may genuinely irritate the other 50%.

The same process that is infecting us in social media is bleeding into the political arena. Our process has now descended into an arena where each side blasts the other side with truths and untruths in the news and social media platforms, and potentially makes our institutions appear biased as well.

We the people need to separate the truths from the untruths. We need to be able to expect our institutions to be honest and trustworthy. We need to require our politicians to be without reproach and not support an unsuitable candidate simply because they are Republican, Democrat, Socialist or Communist.

Our parties which hold up candidates for us to choose between need to be held accountable for the candidates they select. If the candidate does not follow our laws and expect it from all who work for them, how can we expect them to keep us safe and have our best interests at heart.

We need to resurrect political discussion, and genuine debate back to the home, the school, and the workplace. It is this caring interaction and respect for each others views that will bring compromise and intelligent debate back to our so called higher institutions like the senate and house of representatives.

-The Talking Haid

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