It’s not about when to want things, it’s about when to look out for things. Yes, you should always be aware of tornadoes, but you should pay extra attention during tornado season.
Your last sentence seems to add that during elections it is more important to be factual. I think my point is we should be holding those news networks that cannot do that even without elections accountable and not consuming their product.
I’m fairly confident in saying all people want truth all the time.
I wasn’t addressing that at all - I’m saying it’s even more important to be double checking and fact checking during election season because that’s when we’ve seen foreign adversaries try and push fake news and other bs to muddy waters, fool and bend some populace, trick and misinform others as a sort of “backdoor” for future wins, etc.
Not because truth is more valuable during election season, but because lies are more common.
I mean we should want actual facts even when it’s not an election
It’s not about when to want things, it’s about when to look out for things. Yes, you should always be aware of tornadoes, but you should pay extra attention during tornado season.
Phenomenal analogy!
To expand on tornados specifically, re: watch vs warning
How did tacos get in this thing? Now I’m hungry
Me too! God dammit!
Dude you said this better than I did lol
Appreciate your comment/clarification!
I don’t think anyone on the planet disagrees with this, were you under a different impression?
Your last sentence seems to add that during elections it is more important to be factual. I think my point is we should be holding those news networks that cannot do that even without elections accountable and not consuming their product.
I’m fairly confident in saying all people want truth all the time.
I wasn’t addressing that at all - I’m saying it’s even more important to be double checking and fact checking during election season because that’s when we’ve seen foreign adversaries try and push fake news and other bs to muddy waters, fool and bend some populace, trick and misinform others as a sort of “backdoor” for future wins, etc.
Not because truth is more valuable during election season, but because lies are more common.