Bucks County, Pa., Friend Norval Reece has a piece on fake and real news, with a great line from his mother:
Polls and analysts confirm a growing trend for people to tune in almost exclusively to those news sources which reinforce their own opinions and condemn the others — regardless of quality, the use of facts, opinion, bias, and misinformation. Experts call this “source bias.” My straight-talking Quaker mother referred to it as “people trying to sell you a pig in a poke” — people trying to convince you of a point of view by giving you limited or false information, trying to sell you a pig in a bag when you can’t see it or examine it. Communist countries and dictatorships are masters at this.
https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20190203/faith-freedom-of-press-essential-to-democracy
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