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.
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.
And refrain from cooking bacon while naked LOL
Here is how to keep it from refreshing.
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/stop-drudge-refreshing-t3136529.html
I stopped reading drudge when he became an open shill for his boyfriend’s boss Mitt Romney during the primaries
Drudge is part of the reason we were stuck with a candidate that couldn’t win.
I haven’t forgiven him for that yet.
LOL! Ouch!
“Drudge did quite a hit job on Newt early in the campaign.. Drudge was no longer my default home page after that.”
I agree. I have dropped Drudge after that.
/s p)
like
If that doesn’t work, use Chrome and in the settings, you can list drudge as a site to block javascript.
I was a fan of radio even before that.. I liked the shows -- and the news broadcasts even as a grade-schooler.
I understand of course that no one is calling for an end to Drudge, WND, whoever.
However I've heard similar thoughts expressed about conservative talk radio on conservative talk radio; to wit, "expert" consultants are telling broadcasters that the public is tired of Obama, Obama, and "foreboding impending doom."
I say just as the "Fairness Doctrine" was used by liberal/progressives to threaten the licenses of radio station owners --
-- the liberals today are attacking by flooding the nation with "consultants" and bullshit.
I praise Drudge and all the others because I had the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and almost all of the 1980s when it was dangerous for radio station owners to permit any argument against liberalism. ("One hour a week on PBS of William F. Buckley's Firing Line was all the fairness conservatives needed. By golly.")
Again, I understand of course that no one here is calling for an end to Drudge, WND or whoever. But there are many dedicated to the cause to end all conservative access to the media -- an end to yet another inalienable right.
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Seriously, I gave up on Drudge during the Clinton years.
Drudge Report is just "too much information." If it's important you'll find it out soon enough elsewhere on the web.
You can see that he's a bit of an artifact from an earlier era. Over the years I've come to realize that I don't need to access all those print columnists and periodicals Drudge links to. Most of the time, they just don't have that much to say, and if they do, I'll find it out sooner or later.
But he did introduce me to Free Republic, so the experience wasn't all bad.
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