No surprise at all, adults would be just as guilty of believing the news they would like to be true and avoiding that which does not tally with their view of the world.

This is demonstrated by how easy it is to manipulate voters with meaningless three word slogans and paid political advertising disguised as public information releases, that all seem to be released at election time.  They are as predictable as Tax Cuts just before an election cycle or when a P.M senses he/she is in political peril.

I am not surprised at all -- you have to search for the real truth -- as the Main stream media tell us what they are told to and we are treated like Mushrooms -- search it out for yourselves --

The reason why they want kids to now start school at the age of 3 it gives them more time to brain wash them

What do you think about this? Are you surprised that kids this age can't tell fake news from real news? 

Nope, not surprised at all. Simple reason being most parents and some teachers can't even spot it themselves and are no help to the kids. This is a great shame, because of this lack of support to help children develop critical thinking skills is leading to increasing levels of mental health problems among young people. Many kids are overwhelmed by a barrage of inaccurate information supplied by Google and other media and word of mouth. Many live their lives completely online, connecting to friends via social media rather than in real life, and for a great number “real life” is becoming a really scary place.

Parents, schools and the media need to recognise the damaging effect that inaccurate and sensationalist news is having on young people and more should be done to help them spot fake news. Critical thinking should be taught in schools and at home because many children are leaving school severely lacking in the ability to think for themselves and to sort out the rubbish from the valid stuff.

This is a great topic by the way.

How many times do you tell someone about something and they say

-- if it is NOT on mainstream media it can't be true ---

How come nothing has been told about the likes of what is and has been happening in Japan after the Fukushima disaster -- and how come -- and what money changed hands to allow them to hold the Olympics there in 2020!         Search that out -- and how come there are STILL Sushi bars around selling the Nori   (the seaweed)   from Japan -- which has been contaminated since at least 2011 as well as many other products that are STILL imported and now NOT even checked.

How come they have and still do from time to time have very cheap airfares to Japan -- and at one time had FREE air travel --- because their economy is bad and they need the tourist industry -- search it out for your own good

The young people of today know NOTHING about the dangers of radiation and I am sure have never been taught -- even at Uni level

WHY are so many Babies being born with Brain cancer and other dreadful cancers -- because Radiation destroys the DNA and that exhibits mistakes in further generations.

There has also been an escalation in cancers since 1945.

Cancer can take as few as 2 to 5 years to show -- or up to 40 or 50 but it will show but because of the length of time so many do NOT equate it with such things as Radiation exposure.

This is not in the mainstream media -- ( unless it is at 1 am in the morning)    but there is a lot on the net --

We must teach our children to choose wisely in the plethora of media available in the modern world . 

I for instance turn to New Idea or the Daily Mail to get the latest news on celebrities or the date of Prince Harry’s wedding. 

Or for the Labor/Green view of the World the ABC is invaluable .

From the original post:

As for where they get their news? Well, you may be surprised to learn that it's not primarily from social media. In fact, the most common news source was through family members (42%), then television (39%), teachers (23%), friends (22%), social media (22%), radio (17%) and newspapers (7%).

From the survey (here):

The news topic rated most important by young Australians (ranked 4 or 5) is technology (52%). This was followed by events and issues in their local community (43%) and news about education and schools (39%). News about sport and news about health issues were also ranked well with 36% each. By far, ‘news about politics including what happens in parliament’ received the least number of important ratings (18%).

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Based on the above, guess we need to educate the family members first and make political coverage interesting enough that they even bother to pay attention to it, fake news or not.

When the president of an English teachers’ association, who chairs a government curriculum committee, recently editorialised that his English teachers had failed because generations of former students had re-elected John Howard, he well and truly let the cat out of the bag. 

This was that much of our children’s tuition has been requisitioned to promote a left-wing political agenda, even in the teaching of English.

This is only part of that same long march by the left-wing intelligentsia, the elites, through so many of the institutions of our nation. This includes much of our elite media, which remain a significant agenda setter for all the other media. 

David Marr, the former presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch has decreed that if journalists do not come from a “soft-leftie kind of culture” they should “get another job”.

Accordingly, instead of objectively investigating and reporting on the great issues of the nation, the elite media now serve the public a never ending diet of partisan opinion disguised as facts based comment, often indistinguishable from the news, the items of which are regularly selected to be consistent with their agenda.

A corps of campaigning political journalists has descended into the political arena as participants who are both unelected and unaccountable, unashamedly advancing an agenda that is out of touch and alien to the overwhelming majority of Australians. 

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3274

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All media is censored.

The Editors or producers choose as to what to present to us as “News”

In the chase to seek attention we are presented with a never ending list of crisis.

Lets have more Journalists like John Pilger and his like

Is this what you were talking about Brocky?  

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4707/john_pilger_and_the_lie

Thanks for putting the site up -- and I will be sure an read it right through as soon as I can do so