> _“Truly, mainstream #media is the great Mugger of Reality. Even when its individual stories are rock solid, it promotes a deeply false Big Picture of the world. And unless you have the intellectual steel to_ constantly _remind yourself, ‘This is a horribly misleading perspective,’ consuming media tends to make you believe this deeply false Big Picture.”_

— [Bryan Caplan](https://betonit.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-is-worse-than-silence)