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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think that the question almost has to be asked in a different way.
We know that the Internet makes it easier to get information due to its availability to the masses. We also know that more people are going to school for longer now due to the easier availability to post secondary education.
Is the proportionite use of mis-information any higher then it was in the pre internet age? I don't think i believe that.
People have been doing faulty research and there has been a lack of verification since Og told Zog that fire was actually the personification of the sun god on earth.
The informed masses to an extent in the 50's and 60's were just as believing of bad information that was available at school libraries or from bad teachers.
You can argue that the so called lower educational class is more informed to to the availability of information though.
But I think there's a common level of bad or unverified information no matter what the medium is that transports it.
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Fair points, but I think here the problem also lies in the supplier. Pre-internet it was significantly more challenging to get on TV/publish a book/get your message out to the masses. Now anybody can, and does, from their bedroom. There was a natural filter of sorts on low quality information, but now the flood gates are wide open.