[apillar]

There is too much subtext going on, incitement and hyperbole, propaganda and manipulation.

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.

[Nemoque]

Why would anyone care what you watch? It’s suppose to be a free country (at least in theory).

[smoothsailing]

Well, you could always watch the Burqa Booty Channel...

[mylife]

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.

[mylife]

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.

[TomasUSMC]

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.

[Clint N. Suhks]

That will show him!

[savagesusie]

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.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

So?

[advertising guy]

you are an idiot

[rabidralph]

You may want to give up reading vanities, too.

[AdaGray]

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.

[ziravan]

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.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949 . . . ."

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 --

• "You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."
• As reported by Fred Friendly in his book appropriately entitled The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment, this was part of a "massive strategy . . . to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited, and decide it was too expensive to continue." This strategy was said to have been successful in almost all respects.

-- 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.

[x]

Me too. Got to deal with that Millenium bug or it could destroy civilization as we know it.

____________________

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.

[RetSignman]

I quit watching ALL cable and network ‘news’ since the ‘election’, you wouldn’t believe how liberating it has been.

I check Drudge everyday and follow it up with Free Republic.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Really? You just listed many of the reasons why I go to the Drudge Report! Your whining about it aside, it’s your loss not to read it.

[SaraJohnson]

Good idea. Reading Drudge with blinders on is not a great idea. Same with all news websites...including Fox News.

I don’t permit anyone to carry me anywhere.

[Berlin_Freeper]

My firefox opens with these tabs (left to right):
drudge (viewed then closed)
Email/messenger (viewed,remains open)
Free Republic (viewed, remains open)
148apps (NEED apps, viewed & closed)
mydeathspace (Viewed & closed)
mugshots (viewed and closed)
the sun(viewed and closed)
liveleak (viewed and closed)
vimeo (viewed and closed)
my tumblr (shameless blog pimp link, remains open)
Burqa Booty Channel (viewed and closed)

I get through those in the course of the day, with lots of searching on google. I like firefox for the add-ons that make surfing and posting easier, like these:
AddThis
Context Search
Copy as HTML Link
Copy Pure Text
FireGestures
Google Shortcuts
Greasemonkey with these scripts for Free Republic:
FR Tree Viewer
FR Posting Form Enhancer
FR Youtube Embed

[rocky50]

still like Drudge