Maddie Levine-Wolf
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125 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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Clarence, why do you think that is?
Yeah, no, that totally makes sense.
Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of factors at play. I think the first thing that comes to mind is just our kind of, like,
information overload as a culture there's so much there's so much information that we get on a daily basis there's so many sources of information that we're exposed to on a daily basis there's you know there's cable news there's news over the internet there's news over like social media platforms so there's just like
And every source of information has their own, like, in my mind, personal agenda behind what they're putting out there. And so I think just naturally the more sources of information you have, the more variety of information there's going to be. Yeah. And so I think, you know, on the one hand, it's good to have a variety of sources of information.
But on the other hand, at what point is it like too many different sources of information? I also think kind of what Clarence was mentioning earlier about people. kind of seeking out the information they want. I feel like there's a lot of confirmation bias going on about how people are consuming information.
So a lot of times, especially because we live in such a hyper political society, I feel like folks seek out information sources of information that are going to confirm their existing beliefs. And like Clarence said, like people don't want to be uncomfortable and they don't want to step outside of their comfort zones in terms of their perspectives.
And so a lot of times it's just like, you know, and I'm guilty of this too. Like I watch CNN and more like liberally affiliated sources of news and information because that's more comfortable to me. Like I could watch For me, Fox News, which is like a source of a lot of.
Misinformation or another more like conservatively leaning broadcast or news channel, but like I'm only doing that for entertainment purposes, I'm probably not going to really let myself. hear what they're saying, because that challenges my own belief. So I feel like we're all guilty of it. But I think it's just it's a combination of so many different things.
It's hard to say what, you know, it's hard to say it's due to this one factor.
Yeah. I mean, I think... Sorry, Stan, just to jump in. I think that's really interesting, Clarence. And I think you're totally right that... there's a lack of critical thinking right now.
And at the same time, it's like, well, if we're presented with news and information in a way that doesn't encourage critical thinking, it's not, you know, it's like, I don't necessarily blame people for not thinking past what they're presented with when like, that's the intention behind how it's presented. You know, like the way we get information doesn't really foster critical thinking.
So why, unless you're innately curious, which I hope everyone is, even though we know they're not like, why would you question what you're confronted with when it is presented in a way that's like, this is the truth.
That's so interesting because I didn't even think that many people still use Facebook. I mean, I do, but I'm weird in my millennial generation. I feel like most of my friends, if they have Facebook, they haven't opened it in months. So that's really surprising.
That's the, I was just going to say, Stan, that's the other thing is that I feel like in social media, the way it's presented too is like,
it's like all you need to see is the title of the article and you are you know it hardens whatever you believe or the headline is contrary to what you think and so you scroll right past it you know what i mean like it's so i'm guilty of this too it's so easy just based on the headline to be like to you know that's all that you engage that's the
That's your only engagement with that source of information, you know, is just from the headline. And that tells you everything you need to know.
um yeah that's an interesting question i i so one of the other things is that i don't like i don't have cable in my apartment and so i'm not you know i feel like when i'm at home with my parents they you know oftentimes will have like the nightly news on the morning news on just kind of like playing i don't have that because i don't have cable so i do
going back to the statistic that you mentioned earlier, I do get like 90% of my information from my phone, whether it's like Facebook news or Apple news, um, my friends and my family members are also oftentimes like sharing articles with each other. But I think the conversation around like how much to engage, like engaging with it is really interesting.
I remember I used to listen to a New York Times podcast every morning for like a year. And it was basically just 30 minutes every day of just like the highlights of what, you know, went on the day before or what's just like going on in the world. And I remember after a couple months, I was like, I have to stop listening to this. Like, it's actually getting to the point where it's like,
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