GIGO

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Self-Inflicted

“For the past three weeks, against my better judgment, I have been watching Fox News non-stop. I have come away from the experience with a persistent headache, an irrational fondness for The Five, and a keen sense of the many ways in which we all are screwed. Though you might not watch Fox News on a regular basis, lots and lots of people do, including President Donald Trump. The results illuminate the wisdom of the phrase ‘garbage in, garbage out.’” 

—Justin Peters, blogger, “What I Learned From Three Weeks Watching Fox News Nonstop,” Slate, Nov. 3, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: U.S. politics and Faux News have become a closed, self-perpetuating echo chamber system. We’re doomed.

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