The Thing About Being Uninformed

 “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed.” 

- Denzel Washington

This is probably one of the most insightful comments I've seen in the past decade.  

It used to be if you read your local newspaper, Time, Newsweak, an occasional big name unit (WaPo or NY Times), and Reader's Digest.....you could stand in the midst of your church social group, the local school teachers, or anyone at work....commenting on anything of a particular level.  Today? It would be nearly impossible if you did 'read'.....to say you were free of misinformation.

In simple terms, you'd be discussing BS or some propaganda material....knowing that it was crap half the time, and feeling pretty frustrated about the way that things work.

But it makes you wonder....how the hell did things evolve into a mess like this, and it wasn't exactly something that occurred in the past five years.