Re: 'How can so many be duped?' [Village News, Benson letter, 12/30/21]

I’ll address three topics from the subject letter. First, reliability of news media. Fox News (and some of its commentators), NewsMax, and Oann have been sued for defamation by Dominion and Smartmatic, the companies that provided some of the hardware and software, respectively, used in the 2020 election. The media being sued made statements that had no factual basis and I believe factual content in these media is generally lacking. And that goes for Alex Jones and his Infowars, too.

Second, depending on news media for Covid information is risky: you should go straight to the CDC, the source. I...