mike wrote:
Well this can be said in both directions, I don't see many of my liberal
friends who populate the Kos and MM and Huffington post spending much time
at conservative blogs...these blogs are just lying liars who lie. Very open
minded. Generally speaking most people gavitate towards views they already
hold, it's disconcerting to spend time challanging ones own views, this is a
human trait, not a left or right wing one.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jordan <jor17...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Chris,
Unless a person is actually broadminded, curious, or both, they won't look
at a site like MM and see for them selves what we are talking about. If they
are not broadminded or curious they'll resort to knee jerk responses and
never look or understand, no matter how many times you tell them.
By the way, there's a new article on Kos documenting how the right
manipulates the media and scares the public in just the way we are talking
about here.
http://tinyurl.com/ahv9vz
Perhaps you missed the post below. Try actually going to and reading
left and right sites and see if and how they back up what they say. Then
decide who is more legitimate.
The way things work on the right blogosphere, some radical winger will
say something twisted or half true or just fabricated. Then 3 other
right wing sites will repeat the lie and site each other as sources.
Then this lie will appear in the mainstream press as if it were an
established fact. Check former conservative David Brock's web site Media
Matters to see occurrences of this and lots of other shenanigans that
are going on.
The legendary example is Chalabi and the White House Iraq group telling
Judy Miller that there were WMDs, she puts a story about it in the NY
Times, and Chaney sites it as fact.
Rush Limbaugh, Drudge, and Fox News do this all the time. It's called
the echo chamber.
If you do any reading at these places, try to check their sources down
to verifiable research, studies, or reports.
If you read on the left blogosphere, Media Matters, TPM Muckraker, and
Huffington Post you'll typically see links to legitimate researched
reports.
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