Friend Norval Reece https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/friend-norval-reece/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:57:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Friend Norval Reece https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/friend-norval-reece/ 32 32 16720591 Poking pigs? https://www.quakerranter.org/poking-pigs/ https://www.quakerranter.org/poking-pigs/#respond Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:57:47 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61684 Bucks County, Pa., Friend Norval Reece has a piece on fake and real news, with a great line from his mother:

Polls and analysts confirm a growing trend for people to tune in almost exclusively to those news sources which reinforce their own opinions and condemn the others — regardless of quality, the use of facts, opinion, bias, and misinformation. Experts call this “source bias.” My straight-talking Quaker mother referred to it as “people trying to sell you a pig in a poke” — people trying to convince you of a point of view by giving you limited or false information, trying to sell you a pig in a bag when you can’t see it or examine it. Communist countries and dictatorships are masters at this.

https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20190203/faith-freedom-of-press-essential-to-democracy

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