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You know, for me...look, everythign in the media is going to have a bias of some type. We're all savvy modern internet people here, we know this. The best we can hope for is
But then their is bias and then their is misinformation. I can find lots of lefty biased sites, but at the end of the day they don't seem prone to misinformation (on purpose) but rather . Yet the signature of the Rightwing/NeoCons is actual misinformation as a technique. It's an old old use of rhetorical argument - one that Plato/Socrates argued against.
While, for the most part, the left is willing to argue facts, and even with a bias, it's a side that in recent years at least has existed in reality.
The Right in this country just seems intent on ignoring anything fact based. Heck, Bush took the entire country to war on the basis of a lie. And then piled lie and lie ontop of that, and then pooh poohed anyone that presented any facts otherwise.
If we are arguing about what a fact means, we're having a debate. If we argue about what the facts are then someone is using rhetoric to muddy the waters - see creationism/global warming, etc.The entire Think Tank Propaganda industry exists to pump out useless, self-referential, tarted up information to muddy the waters and dilute the facts around debates in issues where big money has interests.
- not sure what happened to the rest of my first paragraph there...TheBlueOne
- i ate it
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