I had the misfortune of running into a leftist analysis on Rich Men North of Richmond today. the thing that made me stop watching was when he said
in the next lyric, we can clearly see where this guy gets his news
gets his news
It made me think about my conversations with both leftists and Qtards alike, where they constantly talk about how news source x is unreliable and news source y is the one that tells the truth.
Anyone who is here from GamerGate knows that news sources are unreliable as fuck, as well as being highly prone to lies by omission and otherwise pushing an agenda. this is been true from CNN, to Fox News, to Zero Hedge, to Breitbart, to MSNBC, to any other online blogging rag.
This a world where if someone is simply "getting their news" from somewhere, they do not have the whole truth and are likely in a complete bubble.
One should not be "getting their news", one should be hunting the news and hunting the truth. anything less means you are just believing what someone else wants you to believe.
/rant
I do feel your pain on this one, in fact something people can do to understand this agony. I reckon you can pick just about any topic even if you know the articles being written are pure bullshit the NPCs and normies are inevitably going to be having their opinions lifted straight from a news article on the first page of google or on wikipedia.
They don't do their own research on anything anymore. No contacts with experts, not even bothering to look past a few pages in the search engine and check out sources they disagree with. I make it something of a challenge to myself to read even crap from redditors so I understand why they get the opinions that they do on stuff and you realise this is exactly how they behave as well when talking amongst themselves.
Journalists don't really do any of their own research either, most of the news now is just people talking about something posted on social media and it's crap. They're all being spoon fed what the elites want them to believe. Depending on how NPC the people you're talking to are they'll probably even quote specific statistics thinking they're smart and then when you poke around at the stat itself you realise it's a load of shit.
The scariest thing about that is government, the business world, and military don't either. Certain highly positioned people of wealth and power still know they have to do their own information collection. Trump and Elon Musk are two famous examples of people known to have private investigators on call. (Elon infamously used his own shady family member at one point, with hilarious results) Investors will personally investigate companies they are dealing with, or have analysts for that. But the vast majority of government officials, judges, college professors, military officers, corporate executives - almost anyone running any part of "The Establishment" - read the news from Mockingbird media - fed by the intelligence agencies - or from PR/marketing agencies run by woke liberal arts graduates. Congress members get the People's Daily delivered on a regular basis. Even heads of state that may care about their nation's people are getting their information from intelligence agencies (CIA/MI5->Five Eyes) that are run by insane ideologues feeding their clients constant bullshit to protect their own operations. Most news agencies themselves simply copy from some other news agency.
The entire world is being run into the ground on a self-feeding circle of inaccuracy, bullshit, woke cultism, and incompetence. What goes for "news" these days is so bad I bet even the globalist elites - people who are more likely to use private surveillance than others - are less competent than they would be otherwise.