i enjoy seeing all the posts with links to all sorts of BS websites.
as if those websites dont have their own agenda.,
its not enough to just see it on a website.
2006-10-13 15:54:18 · 19 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
thank you. I'm tired of all these conspiracy sites that people swear by.
2006-10-13 15:55:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Although there is a lot of truth to be found on the internet it has also made it easier for any person who has an idea they think the world needs to know about to put up a website or a blog of sorts.
Quite often it is nothing more than a point of view or a showcase of selective knowledge and "facts"
With the ease of publishing ideas and stories on the internet being what it is, more people have the opportunity to spread information in a quicker time than what it would take to write a book or for the target audience to go and find it in a book store. Because it's easier to spread information it also easier to spread lies.
There is an agenda behind every website. The owner, publisher created it to showcase his/her viewpoint. In some cases it is the truth, in some cases not.
I choose to research any "facts" found in the internet by cross referencing it with available written work (books, and not e-books either).
I was recently involved in a study, the results of which were posted on the internet. Many people worked on the project over a course of two years, scouring libraries, book stores, archives, research papers and the internet (the latter formed a very small part of our research).
One bright sod who read the results of the study would not believe it because (gasp!) we hadn't used Google or Wikipeadia. What did we do in the days before internet? We wrote and read bound books.
One only needs to Google any subject imaginable to see the danger of "googling" information and basing an opinion on that. For every truth there is an equal (if not more) amount if lies.
Because it's in the internet doesn't make it true. Test everything you read by cross referencing and doing your own research using other non-web based media as well.
2006-10-14 06:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think you answered your own question. Most of these websites people post links to, do have their own agenda. It's just weird to see people actually buying into it as "the truth". whatever the "truth" maybe, we will never know.
2006-10-13 23:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet is just like any other source. Some books are true, others are false. Some media report honestly try to report the truth, others are more interested in propaganda. The trick is not to take anything at face value and to keep your critical judgment on at all times.
2006-10-13 23:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean Bush didn't really lasso Katrina and make it kill only poor people in New Orleans? And he didn't remote control those two planes into the twin towers? Seriously are you saying that Bill Clinton really wasn't a good president? WOW I have to go re-think my whole mind set now.
2006-10-13 23:10:51 · answer #5 · answered by crusinthru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bs websites like the democratic partys page and the DSA page?
2006-10-13 22:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by Shiraz!! 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to the global warming websites?
2006-10-13 22:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by John Scary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite so. One should never believe everything you see on the Internet.
2006-10-13 22:56:12 · answer #8 · answered by Blue Jean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Ya still gotta kick in that common sense.
2006-10-13 22:56:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That only applies to Television
2006-10-13 23:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by Skull&Bones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck no.....Democrats post stuff on the internet
2006-10-13 22:56:24 · answer #11 · answered by Keith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋