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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:48:02 +0700
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:01:53 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:04:50 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I wonder whether the below is of interest to anyone?
>>https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/5/25/how-alternative-facts-threaten-us-democracy
>>It seems to provide a very sad state for the U.S. political system.
>
>I read a wee bit of it, but generally, no, political "analysis" of any
>kind, from any point of view is of no interest to me.
>
>Regarding news, I only want to know what has happened. I have no
>interest in someone's opinions of why it happened or what might happen
>next.
>
>It's almost impossible to find "hard news." If I want to know what
>happened, I have to look through several news sources and filter out
>the new sources' agendas. Popular mass media is well down the list of
>where I'll be looking.
>
>If the question is, "who do you trust?"
>
>As for me, I only trust the people who I've gotten to know close up
>and have proven themselves to be trustworthy.
>
>If the question is, "who do you believe?"
>
>As for me, in regards to people I haven't established as trustworthy,
>I seldom believe what they say, only what they do.
>
>I pay almost zero attention to speeches, political, religious, or
>commercial.

Ah,but's true news? Most of the excuses for the revolutionary war were
lies. The tea dumped in Boston harbor would have, due to a change in
English tax laws, sold for a cheaper price then the illegal tea
smuggled in illegally by Boston ship owners.

The Spanish American War was certainly, partially due to a fight for
readers by the New York Journal and the New York World who were
involved in their own battle to sell the most newspapers - war would
be just what they need to boost sales.

-- 
Cheers,

John B.