My new job requires me to write descriptions of educational Websites, and I have to keep it over 75 words and under 100 words. I have a much harder time keeping it under 100 rather than trying to get it over 75. This is a good skill for me to learn, since I tend to get wordy. So I'm going to continue the exercise on my blog-- keeping my thoughts about certain topics under a hundred.
Under a Hundred #1: Polls
I think the media uses polls - not to see what the truth is out there, but to gauge how effectively they're influencing people to believe what they want them to believe. Most people base their opinion on what they hear from the media-- right, wrong or biased, so polls are pretty useless except for propaganda purposes. Until we learn how to check the sources to see information from multiple points of view, and especially in its full context, we're all subject to the manipulation of misinformation.
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