You go to an expert to operate on you and an expert to fix your car, an expert to rebuild parts of your house, etc.
But when it comes to political wtiting online, no degree and/or education is needed anymore. Anyone with a username can open a blog and make uncheckable claims- no knowledge of actual events is required.
Is it coming to the point where there are so many uneducated people blogging about politics that it takes more effort to separate the truth from fiction than it did before there were blogs?
Are the uneducated mass of poltical blogs really hurting the idea of democracy and free exchanges of rational thought by drowning out the rationality with nonsense under the guise of "free expression?"
As a former syndicated editorialist for a newspaper, I find that most blogs are poorly written and the writers are poorly educated on the issues.
What makes Joe Shmoe from Nowhere, USA think people will award his opinions about Global politics any merit ?
2006-10-20
03:52:19
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