12-06-2020, 10:45 AM
(12-04-2020, 06:44 PM)TnT Wrote: I've kept the MediaBias.com chart handy for a couple years now. It's an excellent source when I read something that I'm skeptical of at first glance. Also, it's a good source when I'm curious about what's going on, opinion-wise, in various corners of the bedlam. I despair when I realize that our friends on the right, by far, get their info either from the lower right or from the fetid cesspool of misinformation that is the internet.
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: you can't convince someone of something if his very being is dependent on not believing it. Too many people have consumed the Kool-Aid by the gallon. That it's less true on the left doesn't mean it never happens there either. We're all wading in our own personal swamp: deep, shallow or otherwise. I do the best I can to keep mine drained, but good intentions aren't really enough these days. It's wise to have a sanity check once in a while.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.