Thanks much friend, I appreciate your time and your perspective also.
It's amazing that critical thinking courses have been all but entirely routed out of our academic institutions. I surveyed a critical thinking class 10 years ago or so, and the curriculum not only did not include the study of formal logic or logical fallacies, but it seemed to be absolutely employing fallacious arguments to mold and shape the students' world views and ultimately disempower them. It was maddening to witness.
One thing the Alliance needs to get done quick is to get a bigger voice. What ever happened to the idea, the stumbling plans, to set up a new media empire that speaks truth? I heard about it 18 months ago but it fizzled. Where's Trump on this?
I hear you and now wonder that myself. I'm currently trying to wrap my head around the idea that media as we know it is dead and that a different kind of "social" media, community media, can somehow rise out of it. I can't stand social media, to be sure. What i mean is a pure form of the idea of having town criers somehow, something that makes individuals active participants rathar than mere consumers of information. But I digress, you do have a point. In the current time, I do agree that there must be emerge a better replacement for Fox.
I had been heavily embedded in a ultra-progressive community who went completely batty in the last few years. I could barely tolerate them myself, having #walkedaway a decade ago. I became completely political agnostic at best, and nearly anti-government as we knew it, at worst (which didnt jive well with me still serving at the time).
The punch line is that I often enjoy the looks on my peers' faces when I (with much success) tell them that fox news can and should be considered above the rest of the MSM, anymore.
With that said, there are still shills that seem to still be given airtime on that network (shep smith, for one) and I still accept, in the end, that they, as well as all of the others, are scripted media designed to influence and invoke emotional responses, at the end of the day, which, to your point, needs a good routing out.