Inside the Fox News lie machine: Salon contributor Eric Stern fact-checks Sean Hannity on Obamacare

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14. The not bothering to shop on the exchanges

because they've been told it would be more expensive is so typical of so many people, especially low information people.

Over and over again someone will say to me, "They say . . ." something or another. Who is they? What was their source for the information?

I know a young man who is probably about 22 and he seems to get all of his information from you tube, of all places. I'm working on getting him to understand that as interesting and fun as you tube can be, it completely unmediated and anyone could put any information they want on there and so he needs to be very carefully about what he sees there.

I'm trying to figure out how to get him to more reliable sources and so far can't quite figure it out. I don't think he reads. At least he doesn't seem to watch or listen to the right-wing commentators. I have suggested a local radio station (in Santa Fe) where he can listen to Amy Goodman and the BBC, but the weird stuff is of course more appealing.