How do you verify what you're reading in the news?

ColbertWatcher

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Tue May-27-08 05:47 PM
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Poll question: How do you verify what you're reading in the news?

We can all agree that the America's news media are not liberal despite the GOP-controlled media's insistence that it is. With that in mind I ask my very first poll question: How do you verify what you're reading in the news?

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Captain Angry

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Tue May-27-08 05:55 PM
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1. I have a pretty good handle on things. But I check if it's not something well cited.

What I hate is when a real story sneaks out, and NOBODY picks it up so that you have to use some weird sites as verification. I tell people about what I've found and am made fun of because of the sources, not the actual story.

2 weeks to 5 years later, the story is revealed, and THEN the major media talks about it. And by that time, the morons who doubted me earlier tell me "That's old news... (insert bullshit story here) is more important."

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Pyrzqxgl

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Tue May-27-08 05:55 PM
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2. I Don't Need to Verify. I know bullshit when I read it!

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nashville_brook

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Tue May-27-08 06:27 PM
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3. it matters who issues a statement. it matters when it was issued. it matters if it's being repeated.

basic critical skills and a search engine.

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ColbertWatcher

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Tue May-27-08 06:38 PM
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6. Good points. n/t

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Jazzgirl

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Tue May-27-08 06:28 PM
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4. I do my own research using Google or

Edited on Tue May-27-08 06:29 PM by Jazzgirl

"other sources" should've been an option too. Wiki is not always credible since it can be edited by just about anybody.

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ColbertWatcher

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Tue May-27-08 06:36 PM
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5. Don't I know it...

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Echo In Light

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Tue May-27-08 06:40 PM
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7. It's a safe bet that what you're reading in the "news" is highly biased, propagandized

Especially re any matter concerning politics, phony National $ecurity, phony "wars," anti-democratic measures and legislation, and so forth.

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KSinTX

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Wed May-28-08 11:24 AM
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8. I combine searching the internet with as many print

sources as possible. Print isn't under the same time pressure as broadcast and blog sources are so there's sometimes a better chance that they've followed up on sourcing problems. That goes for print publications with internet sites, the print sometimes clarifies or corrects the online version.

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bkcc

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Wed May-28-08 11:28 AM
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9. It depends on the story.

If it's something big, I'll do more research (books, google search, older articles, etc.)
A google search usually suffices for something that isn't really as earth-shattering.

It's sad, really, that it's come to this: that we now have to research news stories just to make sure we're not being lied to.

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EFerrari

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Wed May-28-08 11:42 AM
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10. I look for independent sources, multiple if possible, depending

on the story. The American print establishment is unreliable and teevee establishment news is worthless most of the time except to keep track of where the propaganda is going.

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