Dave Barry's Year In Review: We Are Not Making This Up

[nesteel]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

You apparently don't understand the depth and breadth of this forum.

You apparently have no functional grasp or understanding of sarcasm.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

You apparently don't understand the depth and breadth of this forum.

Shallow and smelly?

[colker]

Originally Posted by XXtwindad

I hope you're being facetious. The "lock it down" crowd makes me nauseous. Both here and in the Real World.

Agree!

[colker]

Originally Posted by jamesdak

For years I delivered the Washington Post. Now you can't pay me to read it, LOL! Of course that's true of pretty much any "news" source these days.

Where from do you get your news/ facts however you want to call it? Social media where anything can be fake and distorted?
News and papers are part of checks and balances on a democracy. If it ceases to exist democracy itself goes down the same hole.

[Spdntrxi]

Originally Posted by colker

Where from do you get your news/ facts however you want to call it? Social media where anything can be fake and distorted?
News and papers are part of checks and balances on a democracy. If it ceases to exist democracy itself goes down the same hole.

just because it's in print does not mean it's not fake and distorted.

[colker]

Originally Posted by Spdntrxi

just because it's in print does not mean it's not fake and distorted.

Yes. It means it´s facts were double checked. Newspapers may have a bias and it´s an open bias but they don´t print lies. Social media is full of lies.

These days people think there is a conspiracy on newspapers. Instead they believe in the most outrageous paranoid tales told by those engaged in the destruction of democratic institutions.

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by colker

Where from do you get your news/ facts however you want to call it? Social media where anything can be fake and distorted?
News and papers were part of checks and balances on a democracy. If it ceases to exist democracy itself goes down the same hole.

There, fixed that for you.

[jtbadge]

Good thing the paceline is here to teach us about “fake news”

[jlwdm]

We are in to the winter doldrums. If you look at the threads lately, the moderators might consider shutting the forum down of a few months and letting everyone refresh.

Jeff

[Spdntrxi]

Originally Posted by colker

Yes. It means it´s facts were double checked. Newspapers may have a bias and it´s an open bias but they don´t print lies. Social media is full of lies.

These days people think there is a conspiracy on newspapers. Instead they believe in the most outrageous paranoid tales told by those engaged in the destruction of democratic institutions.

not anymore....

gotcha headlines and the need to be "first"... newspapers are no different. Journalism is dead or on life support.

[William]

Originally Posted by jtbadge

Good thing the paceline is here to teach us about “fake news”

Look in the mirror, the Paceline is made of what you bring to it. The mods just try to make sure it doesn't get to far afield...which the majority of the time it does not.


...As the ancient Tibetan Philosophy states "Don't start none, won't be none!"






W.

[Spdntrxi]

Paceline is no RBR... and trust me that is a very good thing.

[avalonracing]

Originally Posted by colker

Where from do you get your news/ facts however you want to call it? Social media where anything can be fake and distorted?
News and papers are part of checks and balances on a democracy. If it ceases to exist democracy itself goes down the same hole.

Don't you know that YouTube, Twitter, and Memes are where this country likes to get its news? While Pulitzer Prize-winning institutions with scores of educated people who have dedicated their lives to specializing in arcane subject material and disseminating it to those who choose to be informed now have their lifeblood referred to as "news". #gah

[colker]

Originally Posted by Spdntrxi

not anymore....

gotcha headlines and the need to be "first"... newspapers are no different. Journalism is dead or on life support.

How do people get their facts? On facebook? When journalism dies democracy will die since it depends on people making choices according to facts. Without professional journalism there is mostly fake news.

[jtbadge]

There’s a direct correlation between complaints about “fake news” and the “death of journalism” and support for those people and agendas which look bad in the light of truth.

It’s nothing but an attempt to distract, and frankly it’s pretty tired at this point.