Morning Reads — November 21st
Will was willing, but the WiFi in Louisiana apparently was not. So you get me for the Reads instead.
President-Elect Donald Trump’s first post-election grudge match appears to be with the cast of Hamilton.
Georgia State and Augusta Universities are expected to start admitting unauthorized immigrants known as Dreamers starting next spring.
It’s a problem when the insurance company pays for the emergency room visit, but not the doctor. Sen. Renee Unterman hopes to fix it next session.
NASA launches a new satellite that will please space geeks and make weather forecasting easier.
Hurricanes aren’t cheap. Chatham County’s budget for cleanup in Savannah is now up to $22 million.
Two guys target gullible Trump supporters and get rich writing made up news stories. It’s amazing how quickly a fake news story can go viral. And too many smart people are willing to believe fake news.
Who will be the #LastMan to get #TheKnowledge of who won this month’s elections? (back story on the hashtags)
If you’re planning to dry-brine your Thanksgiving turkey, you need to get started by tonight. I’ve found this technique makes a delicious bird.
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Atlanta guy at Georgetown and New Jersey girl at UGA are named Rhodes Scholars. Let’s hear it for amazing kids.
ppl’s susceptibility to fake news is fascinating and horrifying. my 2 cents it happens first bc we are foremost feeling beings before thinking beings. but then- ppl empower their emotions and belief beyond their empowerment of their minds. they want to believe, and don’t want to critically investigate. for some, having more time or energy to investigate could help, but for many, their desires and beliefs dictate their thoughts and critical thinking functions.
It plays into the narrative that the main stream media lies. They take secondary sources as fact because to investigate what did or did not happen means having to look at the original reporting of events by ‘the evil press’. Film and photos are done mainly by the press pool. Eye witness accounts are reported mainly by the main stream press. If you don’t believe the national press, your not going to believe what others say to them. The press is liberal in their view, even the known conservative owned press.
Several years ago, on the old site, we demonstrated how easy it was to manipulate Wikipedia. Now it is fake news. As long as people believe what they read in one place, anything is possible.
I’ve admonished a commenter or two on here before to consider their sources to no avail. The real tragedy is that it isn’t just gullible Trump supporters but the NYT article shows one of them that got the man himself to tweet about it, and that was far from the first time. Of course lefty conspiracy sites and the like are not unheard of either but the President-elect cannot be sourcing his news from unfounded “stories” even if they were helpful in getting the office. I thought it unseemly for a sitting President to show up on tv talk shows but for the love of Pete somebody take his Twitter away!
It sounded like Kellyann Conway told Chris Cuomo that (paraphrasing) “It’s only social media. Don’t pay attention to it.” Which is consistent with everything we’ve seen from him/them so far- his words don’t matter. Maybe he’ll learn that his words do matter. Or maybe people will stop paying attention to his words.
so i had to dig into this topic a little more. i focused on the story that HRC allegedly threw a couple of tantrums- one after the Matt Lauer/ Commander-in-Chief forum, and another after losing the election. as an aside, snopes.com appears to be in the media fact-checking space now…?
but all the stories are typically based upon one uncorroborated witness’ story (which btw, would not stand as acceptable evidence even as far back as Biblical times). sometimes it is one quote from among “people”. sometimes one media source quotes two allegedly different people. but there is never any corroboration from a second news source. which makes it seem in-credible, as in not credible. if the substance of the story happened, there would be not only multiple attempts to cover it, but the same ppl who gave info to one news source would leak it to others. it would be big news. but of course, that’s where that piece about the mainstream media comes in. the specter of the mainstream media (which of course does have plenty of faults) is used to dispel the need for corroboration. and then the substance of the story of course plays into the emotions and beliefs of people- drawing upon and creating stereotypes of misogyny and racism. exactly what haters want to believe. in fact, the substance of the alleged quotes is so absurd and canned, it smells like it was all fabricated. frankly, anyone with half a critical mind should be able to see through that substance. but it all plays into pre-fabbed stereotypes and narratives. a little coordination between a couple of sites, and you have a spot-on disinformation campaign. those who want to believe it, will, regardless. but those who prefer credible evidence need to develop a tool to defend against such a dark art.
Stocks record close! Thank you Donald Trump!
You do know that the markets traditional closes high at the end of November and the first half of December to make up for the traditional slump in October after the release of third quarter earnings, regardless of who is running the country, right?
Lol! You take the bait worse than a starving carp! Big ‘ol hug for you!
Some one needs to keep you entertained.
My first choice was to reply “Japan hit with Earthquake days after PM meets future leader of the free world! Thank you Donald Trump!” I thought it might be too much until we know what’s going on there.
Your restraint is admirable! Lol!
Sounds good to even Dems, I’m sure!
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/800850810490023937?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet