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thenewgreen · 4744 days ago · link · · parent · post: Canadian Insights on America's Lunatic Fringe | 3 Quarks Daily
Canadians said they feared that lifting the ban on dishonest reporting would “open the door to Fox TV-style news and reduce their ability to determine what is true and what is false.” Indeed, it’s easy to see how faux news could lead to confusion and make it difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.
I was driving today in the middle of nowhere North Carolina and I decided to see what radio stations I could pick up in my car (I rarely listen to the radio outside of NPR). What I found were 3 stations in a row about Jesus and then a couple stations that were clearly right wing conspiracy theorists (think death panels, obama's a muslim born outside the US) and then a couple more stations that were essentially a mix between Jesus/Right Wing Conspiracy. I feel very thankful to have been brought up in a household that didn't blindly subscribe to any doctrine religious or political. Those people in the "Middle of Nowhere NC" have no chance.