Giving up on Drudge for a while ....

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[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.

[Vision]

One problem with Drudge is he creates the news around his personal drama. Such as, like now, the score of the Redskins game. Or when he occasional tries to make Hillary look like some diva.

[Chickensoup]

I use breitbart.com for balance

[bmwcyle]

You are an idiot.

[Las Vegas Dave]

I agree, “why care?”.

[Las Vegas Dave]

IBTZ !

[Boxsford]

Oh good grief. It always surprises me when Freepers criticize Drudge. He puts himself out there on the front line and people like you target him.

Did you know Drudge took off link to Freerepublic on his site for a good long while? Wonder why?

[Boxsford]

Lol!! Exactly. We have a site in Drudge that uncovers and Headlines truth and some think its just too depressing.

[combat_boots]

This house is just about down to watching old movies.

I’m serious.

[Boxsford]

......when the page refreshes there are actually new stories added that come up. It’s not all about ads and page hits.

[Boxsford]

Manipulated? Reading Drudge?

Its called having discernment. Some people look past the pics and r ead the articles linked.

[Starstruck]

Treat like you would a copy of Playboy. Just read the articles and ignore the pictures.

[SeminoleCounty]

Dump FoxNews. They are nothing more than Obama apologists now. And they are pushing the GOP Hispanic Vote....Illegal Alien Amnesty.

[riri]

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.

Man, I miss your posts when you are absent. You truly get it more than anyone I "know".

[savagesusie]

Ha-—I do have a life outside of my computer room :) ....I was in Austin and didn’t bring my computer with me : ) . But I still read tons and follow the news, even if I can’t post.