I recently came across the TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie where she discusses the “danger of a single story.” From growing up as a kid in Nigeria to studying in the United States into adulthood, she describes how she and others, having only heard a single story about a certain situation, critically misunderstand the person or circumstance.
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We all experience the power of the single story, often without realizing the danger. How many of us get our news of the world, and thereby form opinions, from just a single news source? Or even worse, from news sources that we believe already reflect our opinions, thereby denying us the need to have to think about other perspectives, resulting in an increasingly polarizing form of confirmation bias?
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Cure for Confirmation Bias
Really? Fox New is only entertainment? You have spent far too much time in politically isolated sequestration listening to your own ideologically friendly progressive liberal sources, and likely educated by Marxist professors. I too have traveled the world. I listen to and absorb as much news and information as I can find. Truth matters to me, so I take the best of all of them and throw out the rubbish. CNN has good talent, and often accurate stories, but how accurate is a new agency that knowingly ignores critical issues and potentially self-incriminating facts that would help us to arrive at the cumulative collection of knowledge that would lead to a truthful conclusion?
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