The best way to form an educated opinion on any subject is "primary sources", ie information coming directly from what you want to learn about. A good example of a primary source is a a verbatim transcript of a speech, or the complete recordings of the speech itself. Primary sources let you avoid things like spin, quoting out of context, voluntary omission of important parts, and pre-priming by pundits.
In todays' media-oversaturated world, one problem is that there's so much more secondary and tertiary sources of information than ever before, that it becomes easy to get lost in the shuffle and to neglect consumption of the source material itself. For example, I'm sure you've spent countless hours in front of your TV and computer watching tons of commentary, analysis, crtiticism, and comedy about the election. You might have a favorite channel that tells you all you need to know; you might flip through them all to get more points of view and cover all the biases; all-in-all, you're pretty confident that your opinion is informed.
Buuuuut...
How many complete, unedited Trump speeches have you heard or watched during the entirety of the campaign? ___
Do you think that that amount of primary source information is sufficient to make your position a truly educated one?
Again, primary sources by themselves are not enough. But they are the most essential part of the evidence you need to build an opinion or a case, because litterally 100% of the rest is built upon that. Any news network edits and cuts exerpts and spins parts of the primary sources; analysts talk about the primary sources and tell you what THEY thought of it, and so on.
I have selected for you a few speeches that I personally think should be heard in their original form, without media bias and editing. You will probably hear things during some of those that you don't agree with; you'll probably hear things that will give you goosebumps or make you pull your hair out : that's all right. But after taking in some of it, you might soften your opinion. Where others saw rage, you might see passion; where you thought was hate, you might find clumsily expressed good intentions. What could have been perceived like classlessness might just be colorful talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dZlm7m4Rw (Just a cool all-around one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_q61B-DyPk (Yeah, the rapists one. He talks about hundreds of others things too
:p )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_uLJKzs-4 (He says he wants to rely on experts more than you might think.)
How many complete, unedited Trump speeches have you heard or watched during the entirety of the campaign? ___
Do you think that that amount of primary source information is sufficient to make your position a truly educated one?
Again, primary sources by themselves are not enough. But they are the most essential part of the evidence you need to build an opinion or a case, because litterally 100% of the rest is built upon that. Any news network edits and cuts exerpts and spins parts of the primary sources; analysts talk about the primary sources and tell you what THEY thought of it, and so on.
I have selected for you a few speeches that I personally think should be heard in their original form, without media bias and editing. You will probably hear things during some of those that you don't agree with; you'll probably hear things that will give you goosebumps or make you pull your hair out : that's all right. But after taking in some of it, you might soften your opinion. Where others saw rage, you might see passion; where you thought was hate, you might find clumsily expressed good intentions. What could have been perceived like classlessness might just be colorful talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dZlm7m4Rw (Just a cool all-around one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_q61B-DyPk (Yeah, the rapists one. He talks about hundreds of others things too
:p )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_uLJKzs-4 (He says he wants to rely on experts more than you might think.)
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