If you want your news spoon-fed, in the modern information environment, you're going to get one flavor. The internet made it possible to apply a broad spectrum of information to stories and have that spectrum made available to the world in ways that only news megacorporations used to be able to do. The bad news is that now you have to do some serious sifting. Sturgeon's Law applies just as much to the internet as anything else.
You point me to any example of an "in depth" story (I can't believe you used "Nightline" as an example), and I will quickly dig up a lot of things on the internet that the story did not touch on.
Also, it's safest to assume that even "in depth" stories have an agenda. You've got to use your own brain now.
Current Events » in reply to You keep ignoring that I was talking about an in-depth source
Afraid you're out of luck, then.
The whole thread (28 posts)
- Babylon
- Iraqi museum
- In less than two weeks, some Iraqis are going to die trying to get to a ballot box.
- re:Old stones don't shoot
- Is that the only thing that matters? Is all else permissable, because of this hard truth? (n/t)
- re: Is that the only thing that matters? Of course not.
- Not a matter of priorities. It is a matter of your too-often-used rhetorical game.
- Well.
- I suspect that Raoul does not seriously advocate teaching our troops archaeology
- Well.
- Not a matter of priorities. It is a matter of your too-often-used rhetorical game.
- re: Is that the only thing that matters? Of course not.
- Gee, I'm sooo glad *you* think so. (n/t)
