"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

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[–]chottohen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Isn't that what newspapers are for?

[–]aaarrgh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

newspapers are only the mouthpiece of those who own them in conjunction with those in power.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trusting "newspapers" (=internet sites, MSM news, radio, TV, "influencers", etc, etc) to define what's "real" is the root of the mess of our species. We seem incapable of separating "story" from reality. There must be some evolutionary advantage to conflating stories we hear/read/see with the direct experience of our lives and treating both as equally "real". If our species ends in human-caused catastrophe, this effect will be the central force leading to our end.

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn't it be a shame if the newspapers ran out of paper somehow? ;)