But there is something that works.
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There's probably someone in your life who believes something that isn't true. |
Not because they're stupid. Because somebody told them, confidently, over and over, and it was somebody whose whole job was supposed to be telling them the truth. Why would they doubt that? That's how it's meant to work. |
Some of our readers have told me they just don't talk about the news with family anymore. They stopped. |
That's the part that gets me. Not that families disagree. Families have always disagreed. It's that disagreement got expensive enough that people quit bringing it up at all. |
Here's what took me years to work out. You can't argue someone out of it. Try, and you're one more person shouting at them, and they've had plenty of that already from every direction. |
What works is handing them something they'll actually read. Something that doesn't announce which team it plays for the second they open it. |
That's why we put how both sides frame the issues side by side and label our opinion as opinion. There's nothing in it for them to reject. They can read the facts, skip our take, and still come away knowing more than they did before. |
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One member told us that was exactly what she'd been looking for: |
I was looking for a source of news that I could trust AND that I could share with family members who are not conservative and are seeing only the liberal, mainstream, biased media. |
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Our managing editor used to knock on doors for Democrats. Somebody got through to him. |
You could be that person for someone. But here's the catch. |
Right now you're on the free plan, so what you're getting is a limited version of our daily coverage — no media fact-checks, no context section, and none of the stories we dig up ourselves. That's precisely the part that would do the work here, and it's the part that stops short. |
Members tell us the full brief makes them sharper, calmer, and more informed in five minutes a day. You can't hand someone a brief you don't have. |
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