It's no joke when I say that I learned about six of these twelve media-driven myths in history class.
It seems to be a common thread that, if something was incorrectly reported and became overblown, there was little done in terms of reparation.
I, personally, connected with the story of media-hyped "global cooling" phenomena, which family members of mine cite to this day as proof that global warming is a media-perpetrated myth.
So, in a time when it is so easy to inflate a story due to the massive quantities of data created every second, how do we fix this? Who is "we?" How do we correct these errors for older generations who aren't in school and have absolutely no reason to change their opinions but still have the right to vote?
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