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Clearly they're saying you should hop in a hot air balloon and travel around the world spotting breaking news with your own eyes.
That would be lit, but my point was more like "news varies from deliberate lies to true but necessarily skewed content". Reddit is a great way to get a mix of the whole spectrum with no context.
Honestly, this entire thread has been a bit of an eye opener for me
Oh wow hope you learned something!