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Back to episode — Episode 2594 CWSA 09/11/24

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technique. They say we asked somebody and they said they didn’t have any information about it. So David Muir fact-checks him by saying you know we talked to the town and the town says they don’t have any information about people eating animals. Well did you talk to any of the townspeople? Because apparently there are quite a few reports. Doesn’t mean it’s true. I don’t know if it’s true but there…

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e debate. I don’t think either of them should be happy about that debate because I don’t think he brought up the chronic illness thing for example. So I think they were a little underserved by that debate.

And just the news is reporting that a bipartisan group of attorney generals is urging that social media have a warning label on it. A health warning label on social media. Now it’s a bipartisan group. What do you think of that? I think it’s pretty good. I think there should be warning labels on social media but I think we should take it further. I think there should be warning labels on the nightly news on the networks and it should say this news is not intended to be reality. Sometimes it’s fiction. If you were to believe it as reality it could cause mental illness such as you might think the world is going to burn up from global warming. So it’s unhealthy to watch these programs unless you understand that it’s fiction. Now is that going too far? No it’s not. I mean it’s not going to happen but that would be completely honest and appropriate to say that it’s not necessarily true what you see on the news. Because if you’re a kid how old were you when you realized the news wasn’t true? Probably not very young right? I’ll bet in your 20s you thought the news was real. Maybe for

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most of your 30s. Somewhere around the 40s you start noticing patterns and you think wait a minute I’m not so sure this news is even real. And then if you’re me you know when you get older you’re more likely to have been a subject of a news report. If you’ve ever seen yourself in a news report or you’re an expert on that category then you know it’s really fake. And that’s when you’re like oh what…

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