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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by wu-ikkyu on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#13159153)
Weren't the newspaper polls misinforming regarding the Brexit result? Perhaps their interest in Brexit is contrary to yours.

And haven't news organizations been known to exaggerate/mischaracterize small peaceful protests as large scale riots? I would think simply looking up "Venice riots" on YouTube and filtering for the last week or month would provide you the information you'd need rather than watching a talking head read a teleprompter while the same short video clip plays on repeat.

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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by christop on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:46AM (#13159441)
But presumably you wouldn't even know to search YouTube for "Venice riots" if you hadn't been consuming any news?
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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by bshimmin on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:21AM (#13159197)
Well, I suppose if you believe that the news is all inherently false, biased, and generally uninformative, then it probably isn't going to be a good choice for you.

(Incidentally, the Brexit polls were somewhat wrong, but they were not conducted by the newspapers.)

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