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Old 11-02-2009, 10:45 AM
dubman
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Re: Rumors in the age of unreason
hhhhh, lets make this interesting.
how about:

in an effort to appear post-bias, an article is posted into a thread made on a forum about how we like to pay attention to news sources that agree with us. since actually following through and reading up drudge report to assure our 'guilty' consciences is practically insane because drudge isnt a decent source of anything, this can only be an in for everyone to pat themselves for being introspective enough to realize that they read news like everyone else has been for hundreds of years.

come on. could you honestly be guilt tripped enough to look at pundits use weasel words to swipe at whoever you agree with just to know that you're goodly enough to sit through it?

following the news has been turned into a character trait. it's not that anyone's curious, it's supposed to be a tool for bettering yourself when practically everyone in the news sucks/refuses at being objective about it. so you look at the news to get talking points for your own beliefs, that's how news, politics, ideas, statistics, peers, hunches, growing up means. it's a bullshit little non-thing to say just to do the same kind of self-affirmation that we're supposedly addressing.