Hopefully, it may help eliminate bunny trails from any number of member discussions.
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better use for this thread might be as a place to share all the disgust about other people's posts.temporal1 wrote:This thread is a place to come to share all your disgust about other peoples' sources.
We need to revive the briar patch, or something similarly named so that people understand what it is for. Then we should enforce it that when debates get too heated they should go there. All of us have our ideas, and that's fine, but something like that might help the tone of the discussions.justme wrote:better use for this thread might be as a place to share all the disgust about other people's posts.temporal1 wrote:This thread is a place to come to share all your disgust about other peoples' sources.
i agree with lester about the briar patch .. that was your brainchild, justme.lesterb wrote:We need to revive the briar patch, or something similarly named so that people understand what it is for. Then we should enforce it that when debates get too heated they should go there. All of us have our ideas, and that's fine, but something like that might help the tone of the discussions.justme wrote:better use for this thread might be as a place to share all the disgust about other people's posts.temporal1 wrote:This thread is a place to come to share all your disgust about other peoples' sources.
strangely, and sadly, in recent years, journalists have been FIRED for presenting dissenting views/reports, not rewarded! we can hope that's about to be corrected.Signtist wrote, his OP:Signtist wrote:A positive spin on T1's thread.
What are your favourite news sources? (Yes I just spelled it that way. Don't care if spell check thinks it's wrong!)
Which are most likely to present unbiased news?
I think if someone wants to make billions in the USA right now they ought to start a news agency where those writing/reporting get fired if someone can tell which way their bias runs.
I think it would be wildly popular.
In Canada the CBC is notoriously liberal, Sun Media (which some claim is nothing more than a tabloid) can be surprisingly conservative editorially speaking. Macleans seems to be equal opportunity.
and"Buzzfeed reporters traced dozens of fake U.S.-focused news websites to the tiny town of Vales, in Macedonia. (Yes, that Macedonia.) There they found a group of apolitical entrepreneurial teenagers who had hit upon an unlikely path forward in the economically fragile country – exploiting pro-Trump Americans’ gullibility to generate web traffic, and ad revenue"
So I guess LifeSiteNews is not all bad... and temp can rest easy again"that some of the Macedonian purveyors of fake news experimented with “left-leaning or pro-Bernie Sanders content,” but gave it up because “nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content.”