The major point I'd emphasize is the risk that when like-minded people speak mostly to one another, there's more division and polarization and less mutual understanding. This is a serious problem for American democracy. Lots of options are good, but it's not so good if people sort themselves into echo chambers.
One of the major reasons I FReep is to hear things I never could have thought of myself.
28 posted on 04/23/2004 9:12:32 AM PDT by aposiopetic
Echo chamber? Liberals speaking to each other through Network TV, all newspapers but two, NPR, CNN, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue -- that's the Echo Chamber. What these folks fear is our voice -- our small voice in the internet wilderness.
Lots of options are good, but it's not so good if people sort themselves into echo chambers.
77 posted on 04/26/2004 9:35:00 PM PDT by GOPJ
(NFL Owners: Grown men don't watch hollywood peep shows with wives and children.)