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Hortensis

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19. I'm with you on the media; however, there are people
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:06 AM
Mar 2016

for whom facts always have been "optional" and the truth has always been whatever they want it to be. A big difference between past and now was largely that local society acted as something of a control on behavior, but now the internet allows various types to find each other in large numbers and reinforce each others' behavior.

Someone from the Boston Globe, I think one of the editors at the time of the church scandal investigation, was saying just yesterday something to the effect that with information age resources journalism can be better than ever, but that people just won't pay for it. Of all the problems, the biggest is that we who need it so badly and once mailed out checks every month for newspapers won't ante up a monthly auto payment.

They have to find an excuse. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #1
Don't you mean a hundred different slanders, Ag? Hortensis Mar 2016 #13
True believers often act in ways that do not make sense. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #14
Me, too. I can go days watching Hortensis Mar 2016 #15
Its a product of identity politics tymorial Mar 2016 #26
The paranoid and conspiratorial are exactly the sort drawn to him. Codeine Mar 2016 #22
Have you seen indication of that here, though? I can see that Hortensis Mar 2016 #23
I see it elsewhere on the interwebz, but not here. Codeine Mar 2016 #24
Oh, I didn't realize he did, but of course. Hortensis Mar 2016 #25
I love how MSMITH33156 Mar 2016 #2
Echo chambers... wysi Mar 2016 #4
Yup. nt OhZone Mar 2016 #7
Well put jsmirman Mar 2016 #17
It's time to call for an end to GDP! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #3
I don't have anyone on ignore,but I trash sufrommich Mar 2016 #5
and the vast media consipiracy nt msongs Mar 2016 #6
That forum's been in my rear view for about two weeks now. charlyvi Mar 2016 #8
Oh geez....and I've already been accused of not living in the US. George II Mar 2016 #9
Any excuse will do. Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #10
Meh, ignore them UtahLib Mar 2016 #11
Kids area funny Stuckinthebush Mar 2016 #12
William Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, has said that the candidate's husband MADem Mar 2016 #16
This is the consequence of the death of the media jsmirman Mar 2016 #18
I'm with you on the media; however, there are people Hortensis Mar 2016 #19
Absolutely liberal N proud Mar 2016 #21
They are already proclaiming that tonight was a great night for them book_worm Mar 2016 #20
Time for the Wambulance. Fla Dem Mar 2016 #27
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