# Getting the news from my co-workers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813 "2017-09-20T15:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/21 "2017-09-22T04:00:46Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > In high school one of my teachers had us play “Telephone,” the game where people repeat a story, one after the other, just to see how garbled it can get. > > There’s also a classroom exercise (sometimes called "Eyewitness’) where an unannounced event is staged, and the class writes down what they saw and heard. > > Moral: If someone tells you the sky is blue, better go outside and check. Brief story: In High School our social studies teacher did something like that. She had 2 of the good students suddenly jump up and pick a fight in the middle of the class. She ordered them out of the room. We were stunned until someone called fake. She allowed that it was. We had to write down what we had seen, then pass the papers to another student for grading re completeness and accuracy. One of the few times in HS I got picked as the best report after multiple reviews by students. The students came back into the room and I proudly read my report. Everyone agreed that I had been most complete and accurate. Until the 2 perps pointed out that I had described exactly what they had worn the previous day but their clothes today were quite different from my description. None of the student reviewers had caught it either. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/22 "2017-09-22T14:58:25Z")
NM, just extending the hijack ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/23 "2017-09-22T15:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t Be Surprised When Your Local News Starts Showing Pro-Trump Propaganda > SINCLAIR Broadcast Group is already forcing conservative opinion segments onto local networks. > > If you haven’t heard of it yet, Sinclair Broadcast Group is a media company that owns hundreds of local TV stations across the United States. By some estimates, it’s able to reach 70 percent of American households. > [https://www.gq.com/story/sinclair-in…-news-segments](https://www.gq.com/story/sinclair-in...-news-segments) > [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > He may be getting it from the TV. This is the most important post in this thread. Your co-workers very well may be getting their propaganda from their local tee vee station because of the Sinclair takeover of local stations. As for the evacuation of all Americans from South Korea, that’s a garbled version of this story, I think: [Americans banned from travel to **North** Korea effective September 1st](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-travel-idUSKBN1AI2H5) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/24 "2017-09-22T15:19:55Z")
I work at a trucking company, and the definitions are pretty much: News- The people that tell me what I want to hear. Left Wing Media- Anyone that tells me what I don’t want to hear. ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/25 "2017-09-22T15:52:16Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It’s pretty easy to tell who listens to right wing talk radio, watches Fox News, and visits the nutbag websites. And who listens and watches The Daily Show, Late Night with Steven Colbert, SNL, MSNBC, CNN and left-wing websites (including, for the most part, SDMB). I’ve heard that humans are expected to be extinct in 100 years due to global warming. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/26 "2017-09-22T16:41:49Z")
I heard that the Americans had elected Donald Trump as their President. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/27 "2017-09-22T17:00:34Z")
One of my favorite sayings is “People can say anything. That don’t make it true.” Or, as the saying goes “The world is filled with rumors.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/28 "2017-09-22T17:08:49Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I’m sure there were, but I don’t recall it happening before the Clinton admin was coming to an end. No doubt this is due to the internet effect. Bush Senior’s “New World Order” speech to the UN in 1991 sent the CT buffs into hysterics about black helicopters, internment camps and so forth. That was the first I’d heard of such things. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813/29 "2017-09-22T17:09:52Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > About a year ago one coworker told me Obama had eliminated term limits so he could run again. Yesterday another one said trump had ordered the evacuation of all Americans from South Korea, so of course war was imminent. I asked him where he got his news and he cited local tv stations. Not long ago he blamed the Katrina relief fiasco on Obama, so he’s unreliable at best. His name is [Anthony Crispino](http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-anthony-crispino/n42354?snl=1), right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-news-from-my-co-workers/796813.md?page=1)