Study: What Kind of Voter Is Most Susceptible When Pols Pile It High and Deep?

[TnT]

(05-14-2016, 04:36 PM)Odin Wrote:

(05-14-2016, 04:10 PM)TnT Wrote: For the most part, excepting this forum, I've given up arguing politics with folks in person.  It often and quickly degenerates into slinging bumper-stickers at one another.

What I DO ask my conservative brethern is, "Where did you get your information on [whatever]?"  And often, the reply is "The Internet."

Then I ask, "Where on the Internet?"  And they often reply, "Oh, it's all over the place."

With my ultra-Liberal fanatic friends, unfortunately, the answer is pretty much the same.  Only in their case, it's Left-wing echo chambers.

Pornography and bullshit are the killer products of the internet, our cesspool of misinformation, propaganda and lies.

FWIW, I get most of my stuff from online articles from respected sources like NPR, the BBC, Al-Jazeera, Salon, The Atlantic, The Jacobin, etc. When I ask RW Millennials their stuff is usually some hair-brained YouTube video.

I read some of the same things you read.  Still, each of us has to be very careful about sourcing. Even a publication like the Atlantic, one of my favorites, can feed MY confirmation bias.

For deep background info, I prefer books that seem to have been well-researched.

The biggest problem we all have with sourcing of current events, is that too often relevant stories are simply not told at all. Instead we are fed Kardashian Krap - it fills up the bandwidth and we become overwhelmed with the cacophany of bullshit.

Like the other day on Hardball they're talking about bathroom access??!!  Bathrooms!!  Who gives a flying "F" about who is or is not standing at the next urinal?  Much less invisible inside a nearby stall.  I'm more concerned about Mercy Flushes in public bathrooms.  Jesus.