If you rely on the blogosphere to tell you what the MSM/SCLM/AcronymOfTheDay is reporting on, without actually ever reading/watching the MSM/SCLM/AOTD, you really don't have a friggin clue as to what is going on in the real world.
Yes, blogs can clue you in to what the mass media missed or got wrong. Other blogs can clue you in to what the first blogs got wrong. (ad inf). Always bear in mind that the majority of politically skewed blogs seldom even refer to any facts or opinions that might contradict their attack.*
But if all you do is focus in on, for example, the things that some people think should have been in the news (and if they did cover it, why wasn't it on page 1, and if was on page 1, why wasn't it in 6 inch high letters?) then sorry, but you aint living in the real world.
*As you've no doubt seen on say, Drum's site, the slightest notion of giving one inch to the right results in flaming.
I've tried this a couple of times on polipundit also. Pointed out a fact - with references - that contradicted another commenter and was immediately labelled a Bush-hater, liberal scum and liar.
real world news sources
The whole thread (85 posts)
- "On Culture Front, We're Losing War."
- Are there any real sources for the Hitler/Bush art thingy?
- We are evidently producing MORONS in abundance.
- Tom, in fact you are psreading urban legend. Please practice some of the source vetting and checking you crow about.
- Another item from David Horowitz
- For the record...
- A journalism professor defends Ward Churchill
- It has been no secret that the schools and universities are the Right's next target.
- re: It has been no secret that the schools and universities are the Right's next target.
- Complete and utter revisionism
- "not-right-wing" is not equal to "far left"
- Is Ward Churchill a good example? (n/t)
- How many examples do you need?
- Which trend?
- re: Which trend?
- Just three replies
- Another data point...
- Does the Right agree that girls are biologically unfit for science?
- A column that nails the Summers matter...
- No, but it isn't unreasonable to say that there may be differences...
- Cartoon
- Sex and the brain
- Of course they do -- they invented the concept
- Does the Right agree that girls are biologically unfit for science?
- re: Which trend?
- Which trend?
- What?! You want to hold people accountable?
- A couple of points:
- As the left targeted tehm in the 1960's
- re: It has been no secret that the schools and universities are the Right's next target.
- re: "On Culture Front, We're Losing War."
- When you were a kid - - -