there is good reason to be sceptical.
I agree with that. Not just about the pronouncements of the MSM but everything. It's hard to know what to believe, if anything.
I'm curious that you would define it as paranoid rather than confused.
Skeptics question, doubt, challenge, search for insight. Paranoids, the lay usage, are believers. They believe that they are being persecuted by some powerful and evil entity and interpret everything in that framework. They don't doubt what is being told them, they believe, feel certain, that the tellers are liars and won't hear any arguments to the contrary. Big difference between being confused and believing--polar opposites, actually.
I'm not reacting to anyone's skepticism about the MSM in this or any other incident. I'm reacting to the belief, the unsupported certainty, that they are unquestionably liars, unquestionably out to get the administration. That's not skepticism. Skepticism is a thoughtful state. Paranoia abandons thought to fear and bias. |
