"While they once feared teenagers would fall for everything they read online, now teachers are increasingly concerned that their students will grow up not believing anything they read — or worse, believing the difference between what’s real and what’s fake is a matter of choice."
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/05/fake-news-class-donald-trump/
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/05/fake-news-class-donald-trump/
I live in a small Canadian Prairie city with a spouse and a dog. We retired in 2018. This is what life is like.
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
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We have fucked up the generations younger than about 40 almost as much as we have fucked up the climate of this poor planet.....
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure either deserve saving any more
Effectively no different than the previous generations who believed anything that was written, photographed or drawn.
ReplyDeleteAtlantis, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, demons; Arthur Conan Doyle believed pictures of fairies.
A good history/sources, evidence and bias class would do everyone the world of good. To understand witting and unwitting sources?