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:	post by ArrowHeadNLI at 2011-05-05 16:39:16

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Pam and Aril and I need to go out for beers. This would be the conversation to end all conversations.

Headbanging man: COuld you concisely tell me where Pieczenik's actual case/evidence is? I admit, I just skimmed, but all I saw was a lot of "If anyone knows, this guy knows" followed by a "I took a class, and some general said 911 was a false flag attack" which, last I looked, is not very compelling evidence (unless you enjoy building a case on hearsay)

The problem is, once upon a time in history political leaders would mislead, control, and lie to it's people regarding foreign policy, wars, and many other things. So we created the media. But it became far, far too easy for government and big business to control and manipulate the media. So we brought the media TO the PEOPLE. Gave them cells, cameras, blogs, internet, and ways of communicating news, information, etc... faster and further than ANY government or business can control.

This was GOOD for the people who, historically, have been lied to and misled by their governments.

There's a catch, though, and it's a DOOZY:

Throughout history, there have also been a lot of RETARDS, WHACKJOBS, NUTCASES, and misinformed IDIOTS with a flair for the fictional and dramatic. And historically we've protected the people from these idiots by keeping them out of the media. You'd often see these people depicted in films as some tard in a foil hat with a sandwichboad sign on the side of the road. (No, it's not Rorschach). And when we put the media in the people's hands, we also but the media in THOSE people's hands as well.

You can't trust everything, but you can't blindly follow or believe anything either.

MANY times on this site, I've gotten into arguments with people or something where I'll try to take on a different perspective, and view things from a side no-one else is bothering to. I've learned that every single thing we read, even the cold hard facts, can be delivered, twisted, argues, or misconstrued in a huge variety of ways.

Especially nowadays, when even the "mainstream" media outlets are suddenly filled with an abundance of freelance bloggers and amateurs, while editing and fact checking (or even fucking SPELL checking) seem to be at an all time low. There's no one at the gate anymore, which means you can't trust ANYONE anymore.

But that doesn't mean everything is a LIE. Some things are true, and just being spun in a way that benefits the most. And that's the stuff you REALLY gotta look out for.

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