[jakeogh]

"it's easier to detect false information on questions you are familiar with"

That's so important.

The old "modern" news has _long_ assumed a local minimum of giving the remaining audience strong opinions on things they have not personally checked. Distilled; it's a final pointless outburst of pretend-informed righteousness.

If I'm waiting somewhere watching the network that shall not be named it's an odd mix of funny and terrifying; the stuff they implicitly assume their readers do not know is so trivial... at some point you must assume it's not an accident that they also pretend not to know the unmentioned basic info.

I could link a wall of specifics, but why? Most people don't respond to being told they are wrong (myself in 04' included).

Deliberately tangential example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3BN4T6XMw