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Here's what's on nytimes.come right now:

- UK imposes harsher crackdown in London

- Moderna's vaccine will be shipped next week across the US

- Pompeo says Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack

I'm not going to conclude from this that the UK relaxed its lockdown, the vaccine will not be shipped, and Pompeo said Russia was not behind the hack.

The happy medium is: know when a newspaper was in a position to know the truth and trust them if they were, or if the article explains its evidentiary basis in convincing detail.

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I found this to be a good description of what to watch out for https://youtu.be/v-8t0EfLzQo

It's not even whether they're telling you a true thing, it's the story they tell around it

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> Here's what's on nytimes.come right now:

What's your point? You could make the same argument on every propaganda outlet. Do the same thing for fox news, xinhua, al jazeera, rt, etc.

It's naive to think that propaganda necessarily means lies. It's half-truths, excessive coverage, ignoring of topics, etc.

> The happy medium is: know when a newspaper was in a position to know the truth and trust them if they were, or if the article explains its evidentiary basis in convincing detail.

No. That's the childish naive view. You should know that every newspaper is an agenda driven propaganda organization serving the interests of the elites ( after all it is the elites who created these newspapers ) and judge accordingly. No newspaper is deserving of trust or should be trusted because their primarly goal is to deceive. Anyone who trusts a newspaper or a politician is a moron at this point. Just take everything they say with a grain of salt and move on.

Certainly the last thing one should do is worship the NY Times which many here sadly do. But then again old people are their target demographic. Easily scared and insecure.