True, but there are plenty of “barf alert” articles on FR. And it is fun to watch the members tear them apart. Some are hard to tear apart and that is where real reasoning and learning happen on this site.
You said — True, but there are plenty of “barf alert” articles on FR. And it is fun to watch the members tear them apart. Some are hard to tear apart and that is where real reasoning and learning happen on this site.
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Yeah, sure that happens and I can learn a lot that I didn’t know before, even if I didn’t believe what an article was saying, from what some people post about it. And that’s one of the good things about Free Republic, in that one can get several different viewpoints on it and see how well they hold up.
But still..., I do think that we all self-select various Internet sites and/or viewpoints that we’ve already come to the conclusion on, and we’re going to use them as our “authoritative sources” too...
And so, I’m not necessarily talking about a liberal versus conservative viewpoint, but let’s say (in religious circles, for example) one viewpoint of prophecy versus another..., we’re going to self-select the one that represents what we’ve individually found to be what we think...
Thus, the Internet is *favored* by many — because of this kind of mechanism at work. So, it’s not all all simply “black and white”, liberal versus conservative that we’re talking about here.
I think you see what I mean as to why the Internet is “favored” in this regard....