“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson

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[–]Captzapheart 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

If you don't read the papers you are uninformed, if you do read the papers you are misinformed. (Denzel Washington) may not be his quote but it's where I herd it.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought of the same quote. I've always heard it attributed to Mark Twain, but lots of quotes are incorrectly credited to him so who knows

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It should be, if you don't read the papers and are ignorant your uninformed, if you do read the papers for news, then you are misinformed.

Study yellow journalism, Psychological operations, the Smith Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, Perception Management, etc.

[–]noice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So I've seen the Smith Mundt modernization act mentioned around various internet locations; I took it to mean that it was now legal to use propaganda on US citizens and knowingly mislead them. But looking briefly at the act and some mainstream sources, it seemed on the surface to be about the fact that anything online is served to a global audience. The implication is that anything shown to non citizens would also automatically be seen by citizens as well. Are there more nefarious details lurking there? How can the media legally purposefully mislead the public?

[–]CarlDung 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice quote!

[–]CarlDung 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Imagine that we live in an era where you actually have to filter what you read to prevent from becoming stupid.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's called the amalgamation of media into 7 corporations all owned by ZioCons and the CIA.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not if you just read the comics section of the Newspaper.

[–]Jesus-Christ 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Only the enlightened do that!

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But we have to kill comedy. NPC#4561 told me so.

[–]Firstbrickwall 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Unfortunately after seeing stuff like the information omitted to vilify the cops to further burn-loot-murder, I have to agree with this quote. I’ve always wanted to have faith that our media would give us accurate information but unfortunately that’s not the case.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

So like JUST NOW you realized that the media lies? Better late than never I guess.