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The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.