well alert the media then... did you tell Drudge too???
Posted on 01/06/2013 10:51:49 AM PST by Usagi_yo
I'm giving up on Drudge report for a while, not going to visit it.
There is too much subtext going on, incitement and hyperbole, propaganda and manipulation. The picture that often accompany headlines are not in context with the 'moment' but rather stock photographs that portrait an emotion or sense of predicament that the author wants us to feel.
Almost every headline for the past few months have been foreboding impending doom of some sort that I don't want to deal with or be reminded about on a daily basis.
Just sticking with Fox News, they temper that stuff down and keep things in reasonable terms. Townhall does similar things that drudge does, so I haven't been visiting them as often as I once did. Politico, I gave up on politico about 4 months back because of their pro-progressive slants. WND, I visit on occasion because I really like Joe Farrah and his writings, but WND in general lacks veracity and is somewhere between a dubious blog and a dubious news outlet.
We’re supposed to care, why?
I strongly do not agree.
Drudge has been out front on 2nd Amendment rights so far.
Keep him in your links.
Well how nice for you, noobie
I agree.
FWIW Both Drudge and Fox are on my nogo list unless it’s necessary for work. Haven’t been to Drudge for ages, Fox since the election.
I used to post stuff like this...14 years ago.
I click on drudge everytime i log on the computer been doing that since he first came on the scene takes moments and gives a great glimps of what is going on but my go to is home sweet home Free Republic I received a smart phone for Christmas and can now ck it in the field
Drudge did quite a hit job on Newt early in the campaign.. Drudge was no longer my default home page after that.
So he should just put articles about unicorns and rainbows? Would that make you all happy and warm?
His Louisiana Flash-riot-Mob story did lead me to more info about Ocotomom. Back on Welfare in California.
well alert the media then... did you tell Drudge too???
I can’t resist reading Drudge, FR and tons of political stuff ....
I’m also thinking of trying to pull back. There’s so much that’s infuriating that I can’t do a thing about. Why let the basterds get you down?
There is the Drudge news-tip......
Every news outlet is propaganda. We are lied to by all sides. I check Drudge and other sources and try to sift a few grains of truth from all the lies and propaganda out there. But it is all very depressing.
“Just sticking with Fox News, they temper that stuff down and keep things in reasonable terms. “
Yeh they dumb it down so folks like you will think everything’s OK. Fox News is just the stalking horse for the GOP RINO establishment dude. Go back to sleep everything is good get on the FEMA bus.
“Just sticking with Fox News, they temper that stuff down and keep things in reasonable terms. “
Yeh they dumb it down so folks like you will think everything’s OK. Fox News is just the stalking horse for the GOP RINO establishment dude. Go back to sleep everything is good get on the FEMA bus.
Yea, I think I will give up on the truth for a while. I will sneak off into my own make believe world where things are exactly like I like them. Politicians and weather people will always tell the party line. The department of truth will issue my correct things to think and say.
/s of course
I don’t think that there’s any point in watching any news or following any news, it’s all lies, because this is America and
In lies we trust.
I like ferrets...
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Does anyone have a way to keep the Drudge page from continually refreshing itself, I suspect to drive the hit count up for its advertisers? Any browser that has a way to prevent that, I am willing to look into!
I need to remember to run and get milk when I go out for pizza later.
Drudge “Almost every headline for the past few months have been foreboding impending doom of some sort.”
With good reason. These are dark days. Don’t shoot the messenger. The alternative media, like Drudge and FR, need to put the word out there that a Commie community organizing President, Dim Senate, gutless Republican party, and weak Supreme Court are taking us down the drain.
I’ll never give up as long as there’s breath in my lungs, but these are dark days for freedom lovers.
Keep an eye out for cow patties.
Hey, thanks for the tip on the zip !
I’ve seen their stuff occasionally, but I’ve bookmarked it and will give it a look.
Probably an app for that.
I know what you mean. But it's just not Drudge, Breitbart and even a certain percentage of the population on here as well.
Take the gun control issue for instance, the issue is near and dear to me. I've been working with local pro gun groups and contacting both my state and national reps on a daily basis. Yet instead of taking constructive action, there seems to be a large percentage who would rather declare the issue lost and head to the bunker or the hills or whatever. I've seen more than my share of breathless articles about how Obama is going to ban all guns by executive order or send out the military to search house by house for guns or some other nonsense.
Why would anyone care what you watch? It’s suppose to be a free country (at least in theory).
It’s not the truth when Drudge creates a headline about a current event, then posts a picture caption from 18 months ago to instill a false sense of emotion about the event.
Case in point, how many times does Drudge post a picture of Obama seemingly laughing it up as a caption to a headline that states x and x bill passed?
Or how many times did he post that picture of Newt Gingrich with his face buried in his hands captioning a head line negative about Newt?
Or how about a picture of a irritatingly happy and jolly Nancy Pelosi captioning one of her stupid observations?
Today it’s about the ‘epidemic’, 9 months ago it was the Greek catastrophe that was going to bring down the world, just prior it was the [yawn] fiscal cliff that will usher in a 3rd term for Obama.
You want to be manipulated, go ahead and start your day with drudgereport. See how long you live or how long it incites an unbalanced person to go to a grade school with knifes, grenades and Semi-automatic weapons.
Haha, yep. Anyone else ever notice that Drudge’s headlines are like the opening text in Red Dawn? “Worst wheat harvest in 40 years”...
Jeeez, three days. :<((((
LOLOL!!!
I pulled way back after the election.
FR and Drudge are great news aggregates.
There used to be another one I use “White Raven”
http://www.acsalaska.net/~lwh/news.htm
I miss Drudges weekly radio show.
Not every one gets his wit on the website.
FR and Drudge are great news aggregates.
There is another one I use “White Raven”
http://www.acsalaska.net/~lwh/news.htm
I miss Drudges weekly radio show.
Not every one gets his wit on the website.
While there’s plenty of dark news to report, I get the impression that Drudge’s traffic is off. The hype knob got turned up a few notches to churn up a few more clicks.
I get on line, I link to the DR. I will continue this. I remember when he started the attack on Clinton that got him impeached and I remembered when he spoke up against Arnold’s Pro Choice stance.
Link to the DR 10 times a day.
That will show him!
Agree. Drudge provides a good snapshot in all of about 30 seconds of scanning headlines. A good news trailer so to speak to help determine if there is anything interesting enough to dig deeper.
Illegitimi non carborundum
All news outlets, by necessity (to grab attention), will resort to sensationalism and emotionalism. In today’s type of “sound bite” visual world-—they would not get any sizable readership if they did not resort to this tactic.
Shaping perception-—is a natural result of anything you hear. Some news—like Drudge vs. Huffington Post, will give you more “truth” than not. It is all in degree. YOU have to sort out the information in the world. NO ONE can do it for you-—make your mind understand the truth—except your efforts and your choices. Don’t expect any one or news organization to make it possible to just soak in what they tell you is the “truth”. Live—be active—and yes, see what both sides are saying and then actively pursue the truth.
Your job, like Michael Savage states, is to look at all news as a cynic—not “accept” anything as “truth” and do the hard, time-consuming work as a Breitbart would. Work. Research. Read ideologies—understand philosophies, especially Marxism and Dialectical Materialism, so you understand the “direction” that all the “forces” in the world are forcing us into.....
Finding truth—is never as easy as just listening to any one person or “one” news outlet-— and can’t happen if you never understand Classical philosophy (the underlying philosophy of the USA).
What ALL news outlets have always done—is work on the emotions—to eliminate the intellect (Reason) and get you to “think” a certain way.
Breitbart-—understood all of this—and ideologies and philosophies—that is why he was eliminated, because he was effective at getting people to understand the “truth” as he knew it—which was aligned with the truth of the Founding Fathers and in opposition to the One World Marxist view of human nature.
So?
Now I KNOW you are a troll. I have plenty of knives and "Semi-automatic weapons." People say I'm unbalanced, but I will NEVER hurt kids. Quite the contrary, people like me are the ones who PROTECT kids.
IBTZ...
Yeah, it’s so unsettling hear bad news. Best pretend it’s not bad.
Just remember to tell yourself when you get on the FEMA bus, there’s nothing bad at the end of the ride. You’re just going to have a nice shower.
you are an idiot
You may want to give up reading vanities, too.
I totally agree. I think I will stop going there too. Every time I do, I am left with some bad feeling or dread or anger. I am sorry to say that Rush Limbaugh is getting like this too. I call these kinds of people ‘coat holders.’ They are happy to incite with an endless mantra of all that has gone wrong, but they never offer help or ideas on how to win.
I have all my tabs set....they are Email, Fox News, FR, drudge, JPost, Local Philly.com, and NWS. I deleted a bunch of tabs already listed previously. I, too, have relaxed from the election hype and decided I can’t be worrying about things I have no control over. Counterproductive to mental health.
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