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Sunday, July 29, 2018

There are Resources

I just dipped back into a book I read years ago, unSpun: finding facts in a world of disinformation. It is written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

What an apt time to have found this book again. With our present political climate, this is an easy-to-read manifesto that can possibly mitigate the flood of disinformation.

Yet, all told, it will take a long-term, concerted effort to truly put up a defense against this tidal wave of "alternative facts." Those wanting to convince the followers of President Trump will need a multi-pronged approach. And I think the most important thing will be to empathize with his followers' views and gently show how he's done little for the people who put him in office.

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