Which sources of knowledge books, websites, the media, personal experience, authority, or some other do you consider the most trustworthy?

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Cassandra Stewart

Trustworthy Sources

11/26/04

Which sources of knowledge books, websites, the media, personal experience, authority, or some other do you consider the most trustworthy?

There are many sources of knowledge throughout the world that communicate to people about what events that have happened and what is happening at that very moment. Not all these sources can be trusted. This is because sources lie or are misleading, have bias, and come from different perspectives. Being misleading, having bias, and having different perspectives with in a source make the sources harder to be considered trustworthy. Though despite what the sources can do to the public there are sources that I consider to be trustworthy even though to some extent these sources contain bias, misleading information, and perspectives. I believe that everyone needs something or someone to trust when looking for knowledge. The source that I consider to be the most trustworthy is personal experience.

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I believe that personal experience is a trustworthy source because I would have been there to see and experience the event that had taken place in history first hand. I would have been able to tell my story from a first hand perspective about what had just happened. Personal experience could reach others through the media who would spread my story to everyone so that they to would understand what happened or what I had just observed. Personal experience could also be passed down from one generation to others enabling oral accounts to be passed down as trustworthy sources of ...

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