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[Belacqua]

[...] The recent events seemed to underscore that people seek out information sources that confirm what they want to believe.  [...]

Fox lies constantly, so it deserves to be used as an example.

But I wouldn't want Fox's problems to cause us to overlook that similar things go on with all corporate media. The New York Times lies constantly in support of US foreign policy, including unnecessary war. The Guardian can't be trusted on Israel, among other things. I had to stop reading more than one "serious" magazine in the run up to the Iraq war, when it became obvious that they were warmongering based on lies. 

Meanwhile the sciences are suffering a "reproducibility crisis," because the for-profit journals who publish scientific results select for certain kinds of papers. When later scientists try to reproduce the published results, a shockingly large percentage can't be reproduced. Most science is funded by corporations or the Pentagon, which pay for certain results. Researchers seeking tenure or continued funding are motivated to publish certain kinds of things and not others. 

There has probably never been a time when the media that's widely available has had less incentive to tell the truth. Rush Limbaugh, may he burn in hell, was the poster boy for this, but he was only one of many.