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
Spent a lot of time doing humanities research (lit and philosophy) at university. Most important thing you learn from this process is exactly how disconnected from reality "popular" sources are. And of course in the scholarly sources there is a spectrum of respectability and reliability across fields as well as publishers (journals, books, etc). The best you can hope for, in the best fields, by the best authors, via the best publishers, etc. is 90%-85% trust for a period of time.... It has to be continually re-earned. The public in general, and young students particularly, simply have no clue.