Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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