Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
I was in another thread, and one of the rabid leftist offered a cite from "Mother Jones." His conservative opponent dismissed the cite out of hand, due to the source. I admit that I too dismissed the cite as not relevant because "Mother Jones" is not a reliable source.
A short time ago, sources such as Stormfront, ThinkProgress, and Common Dreams were ignored on message boards because they are dishonest and biased. But in the last decade, this has extended to what used to be fairly mainstream. Only a fool would believe what Rolling Stone prints about conservatives or Republicans - they report on the right using all the integrity of the KKK reporting on blacks. "Mother Jones" is a far left publication which traditionally has had a strong bias, but in the last decade has jettisoned any semblance of integrity and engages in pure propaganda.
I'll add in the once venerable New York Times. The Times has been caught dozens of times falsifying data and running distortions to either attack the opposition party, or bury information harmful to the democrats. The result is that the Times can't be trusted as valid source of information either. The Times prints that which serves the party, and buries anything that doesn't. The party is the priority - journalism a distant second, if even considered at all.
And of course the left won't trust Fox. So what IS a valid source, one that is unimpeachable? Have we become too fractured as a society to even have a source that all sides trust?
Thoughts?
A short time ago, sources such as Stormfront, ThinkProgress, and Common Dreams were ignored on message boards because they are dishonest and biased. But in the last decade, this has extended to what used to be fairly mainstream. Only a fool would believe what Rolling Stone prints about conservatives or Republicans - they report on the right using all the integrity of the KKK reporting on blacks. "Mother Jones" is a far left publication which traditionally has had a strong bias, but in the last decade has jettisoned any semblance of integrity and engages in pure propaganda.
I'll add in the once venerable New York Times. The Times has been caught dozens of times falsifying data and running distortions to either attack the opposition party, or bury information harmful to the democrats. The result is that the Times can't be trusted as valid source of information either. The Times prints that which serves the party, and buries anything that doesn't. The party is the priority - journalism a distant second, if even considered at all.
And of course the left won't trust Fox. So what IS a valid source, one that is unimpeachable? Have we become too fractured as a society to even have a source that all sides trust?
Thoughts?