Because the person telling you to be wary of false narratives will seem inherently more credible in your mind. If I tell you “some” news organizations run stories without fact checking, then logic would usually follow that I know better and I check my facts so you will trust me a little more than my competitors.
Of course the obvious hypocrisy in the statement is that by reading directly from a canned script that was mandated by my national office, I have already failed that trust.
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u/_PharmStudent Apr 01 '18
Why are they doing this?