There was an article today about Finland and its training of its young people to recognize fake news and propaganda. The CNN article describes the details of a program to educate to reduce the number of times the population falls for made up stories and slanted news. While it is a good article to read, Denmark has shown an similar capability over several years in getting to the root of false stories, the most famous being the debunking of Russian stories pertaining to the shooting down of commercial flight Malaysia Air 17 in July of 2014. They also exposed an Iranian story of how a mobster killed a person who had a clash with a local customer. The Danes began removing Iranian diplomats two years before they announced what was really behind the killing of an Iranian dissident. He was not the victim of organized crime.
We certainly have something to learn from both of these countries. Our news media is no longer an independent profession looking for truth. It has political agendas that slant facts towards one party or another, and no longer sees the need to apologize for mistakes of fact. Funny that CNN, one of the worst of them for its slanted news stories, would be the one to produce this article. It would be nice to hope that it bodes well for the future of CNN, but don't hold your breath.
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