Is independent thought under threat?

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mmj_uk said:
Analysing the last few years, we've had 3-4 years of solid corporate news coverage pertaining to "Russia hacked the 2016 election" and "Russia colluded with Trump to win the 2016 election", it all turned out to be bunk according to the Mueller report
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You mean the report that indicted, convicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies, including top advisers to President Trump, Russian spies and hackers with ties to the Kremlin, that report?


mmj_uk said:
believing that the most recent election went absolutely perfectly and not even wanting to question it?
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Well Trump did question it with 35? court cases all thrown out because it was bunk?

I know nothing will change the mind of some of the CT folks here but you look like this to us

 
Jono8 said:
Hillary conceded immediately. Obama started the transition immediately and invited Trump to the whitehouse within days. There was never some grand conspiracy about the Russians hacking the election/changing the votes so that Trump won.
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Tbf though she did repeatedly say the election was stolen and Trump was not "legitimate", if she was president I bet she would be doing what Trump is doing now knowing her.
 
inogen said:
She's the news editor, she's in charge of the BBC News. As was Robinson for 10 years before her. He was all set to be a Tory politician before he turned journo. Now he's the anchor of Today. BBC news is infested with Toryism. A number of production companies that produce the news programming like QT are run by paid up Tories too. Just a fact of life nowadays.
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Er. Nope. She's the political editor - that is senior reporter for all things politics. There's a number of levels of management at BBC News above Kuenssberg. Same for Nick Robinson, Jon Cole etc before her.
 
MagicBoy said:
Er. Nope. She's the political editor - that is senior reporter for all things politics. There's a number of levels of management at BBC News above Kuenssberg. Same for Nick Robinson, Jon Cole etc before her.
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oh yeah, sorry. Political editor. Not like we’re taking politics, but yeah. You’re right. Not “news”. “Politics”. Full of lefties.
 
mmj_uk said:
...I was wondering do we have a generation of people incapable of independent thought who just take whatever the mainstream (corporate media) position happens to be on everything and who dismiss any other possibility? could it be gullibility to authority figures or just laziness? if you just take whatever position fed to you all of the time you never have to think for yourself and at the same time it's become easy (due to the social media mob mentality) to dismiss any other position as "uneducated" which feeds into the narcissism that seems to be quite rampant on social media.

How can you flip from 3 years of believing an election was hacked by a foreign power to just suddenly believing that the most recent election went absolutely perfectly and not even wanting to question it? calling anyone who does a conspiracy theorist? and for that matter how can the corporate news media?
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Independent thought is not under threat. You're able to research and reach your own conclusions, right or wrong.

The fact that people reach different conclusions indicates independent thought is alive and well.
 
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