The US mainstream media (MSM) has pushed back against recent polls that claim high levels of mistrust in their output by claiming that it's the fault of their audiences, who suffer from poor "information hygiene".
As a smelly, somewhat scruffy member of that audience, FNN always wants all its readers to be informationally healthy so we offer this 10-point plan for better information hygiene:
- Get off social media.
- "Follow" your own judgement and not somebody who claims to be an "influencer", writes a blog or has an Instagram channel.
- Avoid listening to/reading/watching politicized news that reflects nothing more than the editorial bias of the channel.
- Read widely - including anything by Orwell and Forster's The Machine Stops.
- Watch alternate channels such as RT, Al-Jazeera and other non-MSM channels to get some different perspectives even if you don't agree with what they say.
- Don't go to university but get your own invaluable and unique life experience instead and use that to "become" who you are.
- Occasionally go to neighbourhoods or places you don't know well and talk to the people who live there. You might learn something.
- Stop blaming the government, elites, or the Russians for anything and everything and take responsibility for yourself.
- Don't think that everything and everybody who does not think like you do should be "canceled" or "deplatformed".
- Don't accept that the pernicious idea virus that the "media is the message" - in reality the media is more like a disease vector.
FNN believes that if you adopt this advice, you won't much care what the MSM and its 24x7 fodder tells you, and you will become instantly informationally healthy.
Aaaah...doesn't that feel good?
Oh and read Fake News Network, which at least admits that everything it publishes is fake.