OldLady loves to argue.I never said all articles have strong commentary by the OP poster. No one I've heard here is attempting to deny that. What I'm saying is that you are certainly being critical of that fact and I can't imagine why you are even trying to say you're not.You ain't foolin' me Xelor. I hear the ole tsk tsk tsk because everyone here doesn't use dialectical whoosits or whatever you call them in their "arguments." I like your comments and your threads, although we don't always agree, but you have a very formal style that not all people either know how or care to use.But the question I've asked people to answer is this, "Do many, perhaps most, members who create threads in the Politics, CDZ and Current Events subforums yearn to be news reporters?" No matter what I wrote to in sharing the observations that inspired the question, the fact remains that I haven't asked a loaded question. I've given potential responders a neutrally posed question to answer.What are the loaded terms in my question that imply I have an opinion one way or the other about whether doing so is right or wrong?
I have to ask because so often OP content and titles contains little more than a lifted headline and perhaps the OP-er's thinly presented opinion on the "headline." Often enough, the "headline" and OP says nothing that can't be obtained from consuming the content of any news outlet. Thus, I've often found myself wondering whether folks genuinely see USMB as a "practice pen" for budding cub reporters?
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What are you of a mind to do? Assert that my observations are inaccurately described? Are you really going to assert that those terms inaptly describe a great number of OPs in the noted subforums? Surely you aren't going to conflate an observation with an opinion about that which is observed.
That's just from clicking my way down the listed Current Events topics. Does anything you see there strike you as not being "little more," "thinly presented," or content that can't be obtained from merely reading the article that's linked.or picking it up from a competing news outlet? My use of those phrases does not constitute my opinion; those phrases accurately describe the content one observes in those posts. There's nothing "loaded" about describing extant facts.
- GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’
- Alaska lawmaker: Women try to get pregnant to get a “free trip to the city” for abortion
- New Orleans City Council Gives Confederate Monuments The Boot
- Macron 65% +
- 15 year old points BB gun at San Diego police officer, gets shot & killed after refusing to drop it
- Emory University to pay ‘100 percent’ of the financial need of illegal students
- Religion of Peace™ Update
- Man Sue's for getting stuck next to two fat slobs..
- Lee Stranahan Reports on EB-5
- ObamaCare cost spike is Trump’s fault, ACA architect says
- Disagree With the Liberal Media, Lose Your Job
- Jared Kushner's family criticised for touting cash-for-visas scheme in China
Did you click on those links? In how many of them was there something, formal or not, one can call an argument that the OP-er made?in their "arguments."
I like your comments and your threads
TY
a very formal style
My question is about content, not style.
Sometimes you find the most damnable stuff to argue about.Sometimes you find the most damnable stuff to argue about.
Frankly, I wasn't looking for an argument. I've been drawn into one by you forcing me to defend the nature and intent of the question I posed. I just wanted folks to answer the question, "yes" or "no," and include a bit of exposition regarding their answer.
