Story Time

Why some people buy what the media is selling:

We talk about people living in a bubble--and they do--but the problem goes deeper than the filtering of information. If it were just a filter or bubble, then the bubble could burst, as it should have many times in the past few years. After the Steele Dossier, Hunter Biden laptop, "sharp as a tack" hoaxes were exposed, a person exercising rationality would revise their circle of trust, right? But millions haven't, and most of those millions are pretty smart. The problem is that they have outsourced thinking to others, or at least thinking on big, complicated topics. They have chosen authorities and will not abandon them. They still look to Fauci, Scientific American, the FDA, and the CDC, and all the other authorities. David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart impress them as moderate, deep thinkers. They are on PBS!

Because they're smarter than us, or something...