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RockRaven

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1. I'd also attribute it to the type/quality of reporting that the "news" covers these days.

Reply to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:41 PM

Mar 2020

People watch CNN, MSNBC, or FOXNews and think they are getting the day's news. In reality, those networks only really cover politics/government, and ignore most of the goings on in the world.

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