> That whole demographic assumes that media is lying by default.

Yes. And then they turn around and trust that the Boston Marathon Bomber was some random kid because Reddit said so.

The new generation of netizens distrusts classic media and then suddenly trusts Reddit and Google searches and random blogs.

Bad Twitter arguments citing YouTube videos talking about a Redditors problem about Microsoft Updates and SSDs just broke through a week or two ago and nearly everyone involved in the discussion is utterly wrong.