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To: humblegunner

Think carefully about what’s happening though. People who will only use material from these censored sources (folks like Rush Limbaugh and most “conservative” pundits) are automatically self-censoring as well, because the only people who CAN give them the unfiltered stuff are people who don’t care to be “government approved”.

Blogs are where you can get new information that’s not censored. Unfortunately, because anybody can have a blog there is little way for people to know who is trustworthy and who not. That means if you run a blog and want to be considered credible you have to document everything. Which is good, but it also bogs down the issues in minutiae. If the reporters at NYT, for instance, had to show copies of every document that supports what they say, give the names and copies of all communications with the sources they rely on, etc.... who would ever talk to them, and who would ever slog through their reports?

And yet that’s what blog authors have to do. It’s almost a no-win situation because if you document everything it’s so tedious you lose your readers, and if you don’t document everything you’re not credible.

That’s where we’re at though. It’s not going to change anytime soon either.


8 posted on 07/26/2012 3:20:05 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

The MSM are card carrying members of the RINO/DINO club. That is why when they want to report what Conservatives think, they ask John McCain.


17 posted on 07/26/2012 3:55:12 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: butterdezillion

It certainly explains why any stories regarding Obama’s eligibility vanish down the memory hole within hours of their appearance.


23 posted on 07/26/2012 7:04:19 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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