That is true of most of the fools here. I believe that one needs to look carefully at all sources to figure out who is lying and how, and that most reporters themselves just repeat partisan propaganda. As they say, “the first casualty of war is truth.”
If one looks for “absolute truth” about events or causes or “prophecies” for the future, and expects to find it in “news reports” on Fox or CNN or from their “talking heads” … then one is just a sap.
There is nothing wrong with distrusting politicians, being skeptical of news sources, or admitting one’s ignorance … we cannot be “experts” in everything, and many matters are by their nature really complex.
But to put faith in people like MacGregor, who has constantly been wrong on Ukraine & Russia and now makes hysterical predictions about subjects he has no expertise in whatever like economics, or to allow yourself to make up your mind by simply choosing to believe “what you want to believe is true” … is madness.
People do do that all the time. They scream about their beliefs when they know very little and believe “what they want to believe” or what they hear on their favorite TV station. Not saying this is what you normally do. Just saying we need to consciously avoid doing this.