I mean...yeah okay C-SPAN isn’t a bad source. I’ve always considered it to be the raw data of a political position, but it doesn’t mean you understand what they are talking about. I think a lot of things would go over my head because public policy is very complex. It takes a higher education to understand it with some authority. My sister is an analyst for the Government Accountability Office. You would be amazed to figure out just how ignorant you and I are of American public policy. There is so much to learn from it. I mean is C-SPAN the only thing I should trust? Who the hell besides you would watch C-SPAN for an extended period of time to understand a political issue? There’s nothing wrong with trusting authority on the subject if they present their argument with a nuanced explanation backed by facts. I don’t see how you or I could become more informed in a meaningful way if we watched C-SPAN all day. C-SPAN is missing a shit load of context on a given day.You definitely are right that context matters, but I don’t know why I should believe any fact checker has been compromised. If that’s the case, who exaxctly should I trust to find out the truth?
That's the whole point silly. You don't go to a fact checker -- you WORK for it. You MIGHT have to read a Fox news article or something not TOTALLY reliable to GET TO reliable information. I never reject any sources that aren't flat out conspiracy nonsense. But I'll never DECIDE until I research a BROAD range of sources. Including trying to sit thru CSPAN re-runs of politicians spending 70% of hearings bloviating and self-congratulating. It's PAINFUL. It's not EASY. It's not thumb typing or clicking.
It's childish to let a "fact checker" THINK for you.
Where I'm coming from is almost 35 years in the sciences and engineering and technical academia. THere's the scientific method as a guide. There's setting up the DEFINITIONS for a statistic. A statistic without definitions and confidence levels is useless and manipulative.
Hell --- there are no numbers coming out of that massive bureaucracy in DC that AREN'T subject to skepticism BECAUSE of the hokey definitions that were made to set them up. Like the 15 Unemployment indexes or the different sneaky ways that "ObamaCare enrollment" was calculated. Even DIPLOMATS can agree on Trade Deficits because it takes EFFORT AND DILIGIENCE and clear thinking to understand the facts and numbers.
To borrow a phrase -- GET WOKE. This age of information is turning to a curse. EVERYBODY thinks they own your computer, your allegiance and your mind. It's "defense against the black arts". Only the folks that think for themselves are gonna survive.