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virtualobserver

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5. I think that your doubt is justified

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 13, 2017, 11:05 AM

Apr 2017

The media are losing their stranglehold on both information and disinformation.
The tiny window that they once controlled has become multiple distorted tiny windows as Facebook ads and click bait seem to be the primary source for many.

I would like to see a study of beliefs based on access to information.

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What do cord-cutters believe?

What do people without internet access believe?

What do people who only have access to broadcast tv believe?

It is hard for me to have hope, but I know that what we have now will evolve into something else.

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