Well there has always been the peer pressure to conform, however, while you certainly well get flamed here for not towing the majority line.. (And I’ve been flamed many a time)... unlike many other places on the internet, I have not had my voice silenced or my account banned etc.
I often get attacked because I don’t tow the line. Most recently would have been over me stating my honest assessments of OZ and Fetterman during the 2022 race. I was attacked viciously and vociferously by many many people whenever I would point out the fact, that OZ was by far the worst candidate I had ever seen run in a statewide election as a republican in PA and had zero chance of winning, and that Fetterman was not the left wing nutter and lug that the RNC and their parrots sold him as.
I won’t say I have never flamed anyone in all the years I have been here.
So, while I do get flamed whenever I voice an opinion that doesn’t tow the line, my voice isn’t shut down. So, I give FR props for that... however I won’t argue that this place has become far less the open exchange of ideas, and more a shouting match over the decades.
However, you have to be a special kind of person, to present things like the Gateway Pundit and think you are being told the full truth. I have nothing against them, and they do present things that often are ignored by the MSM.. however, their record for accurately reporting things, is abysmal. So, to take what they report fully at face value, you have to be a special kind of delusional to not question their reporting. There is no difference in swallowing what they are feeding you as truth, then there is someone swallowing what MSNBC offers up blindly as truth.
Yes MSNBC has a larger audience, and more exposure, sure, but GP and MSNBC are pretty much equivalent when it comes to “ACURRATELY” reporting anything.
Re: 243 - Jim Hoft from TGP is a hack “journalist’. Quite often gets the facts he reports totally wrong.
Daily Expose is another site that needs some help in the accuracy department.
News sources are like polls - people will tout what they agree with and dismiss what they don’t agree with. Again, a lack of discernment and perhaps for some a lack of intellectual ability to think critically.