Honestly, we should consider holding the news accountable here. Speaking as a special education teacher, if at the end of my class, students with learning disabilities consistently thought the exact opposite of reality, I'd feel incompetent and horrible. If at the end of a lesson on coal as a power source, they missed specifically that it results in sulfuric acid production due to impurities, that's not the end of the world. If they conclude, "Coal is a clean, renewable power source that is easy to mine without any environmental worries!" I'd be aghast.

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If a news segment consistently leads people to believe the opposite of the truth, it should be revised until it no longer does so.