Thursday, June 20, 2024

Radical skepticism Permission to believe only what you want to believe

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_skepticism#:~:text=Radical%20skepticism%20(or%20radical%20scepticism,certainty%20is%20therefore%20never%20justified.

Radical skeptics hold that doubt exists as to the veracity of every belief and that certainty is therefore never justified. 

Or to quote Trump - Don't believe your lying eyes or fake news only believe me. 

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  1. There is also justified skepticism: given teh liberal media's track record, one can safely discount their claims.

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  3. Can you come up with a formula on how to read news and determine if it's accurate. Obviously, the first step is to determine what the bias of the writer is and watch for it. What's the 2nd 3rd and 4th steps?

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  4. Here is a fantastic HBS article on evolution of the media and government press:

    https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth

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  5. Some notable quotes: "He quotes Reuven Frank, a former president of NBC News, as asserting, 'News is whatever the goddamn government says it is.'"

    Coups and earthquakes, he says, are what editors want to report. But when reporters try to cover “crucial trends taking shape at the normal pace of human events—slowly…editors have trouble packaging them.”

    The system is geared as much to amuse and divert as it is to inform,” Rosenblum writes, “and it responds inadequately when suddenly called upon to explain something…complex and menacing.

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    1. If you want to know whether or not to believe the news, watch "Wage the Dog" and "Dave"
      The news has always, always been biased. In a planet full of newsworthy events, which do you report in the 1/2 hour slot at 6:30 you've been given? Some things get chosen, some ignored. Now it's 24 hours a day but the bias remains and becomes much more obvious.

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  6. Wag the dog is better. Thanks for sharing

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