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For 95% of the population, blind trust of relatively reliable sources is, in fact, a MUCH better guide to truth than selective skepticism of the same sources. It would be great if everyone was as smart and consistently rational as they think they are and had access to original sources and the time to do the work of discovering relevant facts themselves, but that's simply not the world we live in.
The current pattern for most WRers at least is, "when the MSM reports something that is good for my tribe, it's accurate; when it reports something I don't like, it's probably lying, and Breitbart or Prison Planet are more accurate."
I respectfully disagree. If one is at that level, being uninformed and ignorant is much better than blindly swallowing what MSM tells you. I would maybe agree with you if MSM hadn't literally helped start phony wars in the past based on false information.