Description:Imagine a word that could stop a conversation, shut down all serious thought and make mountains of evidence disappear. Meet that wonderful term āconspiracy.ā Today we examine this word from the inside-out and look at ways political activists can use it as a basis for productive conversation.
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Pittsburgh (AFP) ā President Barack Obama on Thursday decried Americaās āwild, wild westā media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.
Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.
āWe are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to,ā Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.
āThere has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just donāt have any basis in anything thatās actually happening in the world,ā Obama added.
Obama decries āwild westā media landscape
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-landscape-214642552.html
Pittsburgh (AFP) ā President Barack Obama on Thursday decried Americaās āwild, wild westā media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.
Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.
āWe are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to,ā Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.
āThere has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just donāt have any basis in anything thatās actually happening in the world,ā Obama added.