{"id":50423,"date":"2020-01-04T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50423"},"modified":"2020-01-04T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T15:46:13","slug":"is-fake-news-hard-wired-study-finds-people-misremember-facts-to-fit-their-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50423","title":{"rendered":"Is Fake News Hard-Wired? Study Finds People Misremember Facts To Fit Their Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2020\/01\/03\/is-fake-news-hard-wired-study-finds-people-misremember-facts-to-fit-their-beliefs\/\">Is Fake News Hard-Wired? Study Finds People Misremember Facts To Fit Their Beliefs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2019\/12\/31\/chuck-todd-asks-whether-trump-supporters-simply-want-to-be-lied-to\/#more-151013\">recently criticized NBC Meet The Press host Chuck Todd&nbsp;<\/a>for suggesting that Trump supporters are fantasy-prone dimwits who just want to be lied to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NBC News anchor Chuck Todd is under fire for an openly derisive comment about Trump supporters as effectively delusional drones who want to be lied to<\/strong>. He even added a dig at belief in biblical accounts like Noah\u2019s Ark. It is the latest example of how open bias has become the norm on mainstream media. Imagine if Todd said Obama supporters are ignorant voters who just want to be lied to. This is precisely why the media is now driving some voters to Trump and reinforcing echo-journalism on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday\u2019s &nbsp;\u201cMeet the Press,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Todd criticized \u201cmisinformation\u201d in the media&nbsp;<\/strong>and referenced a \u201cfascinating\u201d letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader from last January. The letter read, \u201c[W]hy do people support Trump? It\u2019s because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales\u2026 This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good\u2026 The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel . . . Show me a person who believes in Noah\u2019s ark and I will show you a Trump voter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Todd used the letter to say to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet \u201cThis gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, \u2018Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.\u2019 They don\u2019t always love being told hard truths.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B69EEvICbLQ\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Baquet was not sold on the theory and responded&nbsp;<strong>\u201cI\u2019m not quite sure I buy that. I\u2019m not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted<\/strong>, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Fake News Hard-Wired? Study Finds People Misremember Facts To Fit Their Beliefs I&nbsp;recently criticized NBC Meet The Press host Chuck Todd&nbsp;for suggesting that Trump supporters are fantasy-prone dimwits who just want to be lied to&#8230; NBC News anchor Chuck Todd is under fire for an openly derisive comment about Trump supporters as effectively delusional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,2779,28781,496,14465,3209],"class_list":["post-50423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-beliefs","tag-fake-news","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-mainstream-media","tag-meet-the-press","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50424,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions\/50424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}