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Here you will find answers to 2 questions:

1. How to select information sources worthy of your time and attention. After all, in the information overload we are facing today, who wants to spend time reading lies and misinformation?
2. How to fight back media puppets (not corporations themselves)?

My Litmus Test is this: I go to the article about republican primary elections (note: I am not a republican) and do the search (CTRL+F) for ‘Ron Paul’. Most of the time there is no result found. An article about republican primaries that does not mention one of the candidates is no article at all. Article that goes even further and misrepresents the facts is even worse, and its writer should be held accountable for misinformation or similar charges. If Media entity that aspires to call itself a news agency of any kind (objective, unbiased, bla bla), does not report on this very important event in a reasonable manner, it only shows that its respect for citizens and voters (no matter how small or large constituency base they make) is practically nonexistent. If it doesn’t care about me, my vote, and my representatives, why should I care about what it has to say? Why would I care what it reports on (non)democracies in the rest of the world or any other issue here or elsewhere, if it does not report objectively about the democratic process in this country. For example:

One ‘journalist’ from ‘The New York Times’ writes: ‘Four major candidates — Senator John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mike Huckabee’. He doesn’t even mention Ron Paul.

You can easily find similar examples in almost all major misinformation factories.

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This simple test helps me to cut down the information overload drastically by blacklisting these sources and never going back to them again!

Although most of us cannot really make a significant immediate change as this multi billion dollar corporate owners are not going to listen to us, what you can do is this: when you find the kind of article as mentioned above, just look up contact information of the writer. Call him or send an email. Remind him of the basic moral and ethical issues relating to his profession. Receiving tens, hundreds, or thousands of these emails/calls may have 3 effects:

1. no effect
2. his/her conscience really starts working and maybe he reports what he believes is true, or at least quits the job, and lets someone else do the dirty work.
3. all the email and complaints and critiques from readers/viewers touch some deep insecurity inside, and guy hopefully commits a suicide. After all, if they can do psychological manipulation on the viewers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 364 days a year, why can’t we too?

The lack of integrity of these kind of people is suggesting me that option 3 would be the most common result.

So do a good deed today, and send an emotionally charged email.