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Talking Heads

"Talking Heads" 





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The Blog City prompt for March 5, 2017 is "In this age of the 24/7 news cycle, with all of the different information outlets available (and each with their own slants and biases), are we as a people becoming too smart for our own good? Are we losing the capability to understand reason?"

I don't think we are losing our ability to reason for that would imply that we are losing our ability to think and problem solve. I can't speak for everybody but I have to problem solve constantly. What I do believe however is at we're losing our ability to reason without hearing everybody's biases. During the presidential election process I was homeless for a short while. I stayed in a shelter. My roommate there listened to Fox and he believed everything those talking heads had to say was gospel. I understand there were other channels that were just as biased toward Hillary. When Walter Kronkite was reporting the news you couldn't tell which candidate he was voting for or which candidate CBS wanted elected. Walter was very objective just as a reporter should be. Today we seldom here the news. Instead we here some talking head telling us what we should buy, how we should act, etc. I don't watch it and I don't want to watch it.

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