I recently criticized NBC Meet The Press host Chuck Todd for suggesting that Trump supporters are fantasy-prone dimwits who just want to be lied to.... NBC News anchor Chuck Todd is under fire for an openly derisive comment about Trump supporters as effectively delusional drones who want to be lied to.
The letter read, "[W]hy do people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel ... Show me a person who believes in Noah's ark and I will show you a Trump voter.
Todd used the letter to say to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet "This gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, 'Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.' They don't always love being told hard truths."
Baquet was not sold on the theory and responded "I'm not quite sure I buy that. I'm not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them."
Now, a new study may indicate why people across the political spectrum tend to ignore opposing views and rest comfortably with echo-journalism.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that people tend to misremember numbers to match their own beliefs.
Thus, for people on the immigration issue, the subjects were most likely to misremember the lower figure in 2014 if they opposed current immigration levels.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fake-news-hard-wired-study-finds-people-misremember-facts-fit-their-beliefs
The letter read, "[W]hy do people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel ... Show me a person who believes in Noah's ark and I will show you a Trump voter.
Todd used the letter to say to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet "This gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, 'Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.' They don't always love being told hard truths."
Baquet was not sold on the theory and responded "I'm not quite sure I buy that. I'm not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them."
Now, a new study may indicate why people across the political spectrum tend to ignore opposing views and rest comfortably with echo-journalism.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that people tend to misremember numbers to match their own beliefs.
Thus, for people on the immigration issue, the subjects were most likely to misremember the lower figure in 2014 if they opposed current immigration levels.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fake-news-hard-wired-study-finds-people-misremember-facts-fit-their-beliefs
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