Follow-up to my conspiracy theory post: Informed people get their news from multiple sources. If you only tune in to the conservative network Fox News, or only trust the liberal Huffington Post, you will only get one viewpoint. I advise everyone to follow multiple news agencies, and to seek out agencies that have different viewpoints. People who get their information from only one source, or only from similar sources (Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are not counter-checks!) may be more vulnerable to making mistakes.
Otherwise, if people have only heard one point of view, they will believe that point of view even if it is illogical or uninformed. Otherwise, listeners end up in what Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Capella call an "echo chamber."
Public speakers, in particular, have an obligation to tell the truth, whole and in context. Getting information from multiple sources is step one.
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