how did the older posters here avoid being radicalized by Faux and AM hate radio?

[Baitball Blogger]

58. My father was a Liberal who was a voracious reader. It helped.

He was very clever. There were eight of us (including abuelita) who lived in very small Army quarters, and we shared 1 1/2 bathroom facilities. So he built a two shelf bookcase above the hamper, which was just outside the bathroom with the shower and bath. While we waited our turn to get in, (and you really had to wait in order not to miss a turn), I would pluck a book from the shelf and begin to read to pass the time. By the time the bathroom was available, I was well into the first chapter and usually finished it in the following days. My father was sure to pack that shelf with classics. It is what today would be called, the banned books on the bookcase.

One day he caught me reading The Godfather. He said it was okay if I read it, but I needed to find balance in my reading material. So he gave me a copy of The Catcher in the Rye.

That need to find balance was helpful when FoxNews came along. Their motto was Fair and Balanced. But I immediately recognized it as propaganda.

Oh, and I never listened to talk radio as an adult.

Now that you mention it, on Facebook I unfriended several people who are nuclear conservatives who think that FoxNews is the Truth. The latest one, this a.m.