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[matrixmann]

Meinungen sind gut, Überzeugungen wären besser.

Opinions are good, but convictions would be better.

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[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Especially opinions from media and such. I saw yesterday a great statement somewhere on reddit: "My dad used to say you are stupid and uninformed if you don't watch news on tv, now I know my dad is stupid and uninformed because he watches news on tv."

[matrixmann]

Hm, this would seem like only half of the truth.
It should rather be "My Dad is stupid because he watches news on TV and blindly believes what they say." - This is something you can also extend to the internet. See such paranoid stuff like the infowars shit and its worshippers. This is no news, this is just - tha category of stuff you wanna tell "please, take the pills your doctor prescribed you because" because you can strongly suspect them to be sick with psychosis.
Admittedly, even though, core points they touch sometimes have a little truth with them.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, definitely. I watch news and read stuff on internet but I treat it critically and I won't take their interpretation I would rather find different pieces of information and put them together and then try to understand what the truth behind it.

[matrixmann]

I take lots of stuff also as interpretations - often enough also very interesting information goes around with this, some things that one didn't know or didn't pay that much attention to.
That's why it also often is interesting for me to see interpretations from both spectrums - from the West as well as from the East. 'Cause people from the East often have a very differing status quo of knowledge from your own point of view, from the Western point in general, and they also judge things often very differently than Westerners.
I miss this very much in German blogs that call themselves "left".