Paul Jay and Abby Martin discuss Trump's cabinet, Jill Stein's recount, Fake News and US foreign policy
In the following Video Paul Jay and Abby Martin discuss Trump’s cabinet, Jill Stein’s recount, Fake News and US foreign policy.
Abby Martin on Fake News and media literacy:
"There is a serious problem on the Internet right now where people are
either not fact-checking anything and they believe everything they read,
and they conflate every alternative news site with these crazy blogs
that are totally unfounded and have no credibility. And I think that
that just comes back to media literacy. Don’t read a list on Washington
Post, and take it with a grain of salt: fact-find for yourself. It’s not
that hard. I mean, it took me five seconds even not knowing how to have
any journalistic skills whatsoever, someone who is involved in canvass
organizing in college, I knew immediately that that paid protester thing
on Craigslist was just a canvassing job position. I mean, the bus
picture where people said the protesters were bused in. Once again, it
was debunked by the original tweeter. He took down the tweet.So, these
things, I think it comes back to media literacy, understanding what the
truth is, and not just taking any website with a grain of salt, and
understanding the agenda that places like Infowars has. Look, they
hitched their wagon to Pamela Geller gravy train, long ago, when they
knew that Islamophobia made money, and it’s basically a Fear Inc.
operation."
