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Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com)
Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the University of Glasgow yesterday to be awarded an honorary doctorate. During the Q&A session, one audience member asked Cook to tell what the future looks like. Following is Cook's response: "The world is going through an enormous change. We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something," Cook said. "Generally society hasn't moved as fast as technology has ... so all of us have been put in a position to make sure that when we hear something we automatically take it as our opinion that we think through the different views on it and unfortunately make sure it is accurate as well."
Seems like a thinly veiled attack on Trump, if anything.
Problem is people don't really want to think, they want to be told what to think. They select news sources based on what they want to hear, not an evaluation of how reliable those sources are. It's not even a new thing, people have always wanted journalists to do the time consuming research and investigation for them, that's the whole point of having them.
Fortunately the alt-right has shown up the solution. A relatively small number of people working to spread disinformation worked very effectively. To counter that, we need a similar number of people willing to use subversion tactics to promote the truth.
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And those 3-4 people lied to us, everytime. Always. They still do on CNN, Fox, NYT; WaPo etc.
But by now we also have more people telling us about the news. Yes there is more chaos now, but there is also more truth.
E.g. all the mainstream news about Syria. About how the poor people of Aleppo were bombed by the evil Russians, massacred by the monstrous syrian army. Was shown on every one of the mentioned 3-4 news channels.
All lies.
So good riddance to those 3-4 people from Fox, CNN, NYT, WaPo and fuck them sideways.
This exactly why I don't belive a word Tim Cook says!
Reality has a well known left-wing bias.
People unironically believe this.
No, reality doesn't conform to anyone's politics. Reality has a fascist bias. Your ideology doesn't mean shit when Achmed is sawing your head off.
That said, a political ideology that at least tries to take reality and human nature into account is going to do better than one that tries to force its preferences onto reality. There are not 47 genders, men and women are different, human evolution is real and did not magically stop in everything but skin color when man stepped out of Africa meaning racial differences are more than skin deep. This is reality, but neither left-wing politics nor your corporate media pals on CNN or MSNBC acknowledge this reality.
To say reality has a left-wing bias is to top ignorance with hubris. Now add in belligerence and you're right at home with your antifa friends.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.