[sam_paine]

The information about the "conspiracy" of 9/11 is primarily internet fueled

Another unexpected consequence of the "fall" of the Dinosaur Media.

Which is actually worse? Walter Cronkite ending the Vietnam War, or Truthers and DUmmies making up a large segment of the "New Media"?

[raybbr]

Which is actually worse? Walter Cronkite ending the Vietnam War, or Truthers and DUmmies making up a large segment of the "New Media"?

I don't think there was anything that could be done to stop it. With somewhat advanced technology available to so many people this was bound to happen.

What this has really done is pull the covers off of the intellectually lazy people in the U.S. Too many poeple are too lazy in the mind to find the truth - even as it's more readily available than ever before.

[Popman]

Which is actually worse? Walter Cronkite ending the Vietnam War, or Truthers and DUmmies making up a large segment of the "New Media"?

Very interesting question.

YouTube, Yahoo, My Space, Google, Wikipedia and similar sites are making huge inroads in information dissemination to the youth, Gen Xer's of the world.

There are very few filters on these sites to test what get passed off as "truth" or "facts" so a lot of crap needs to be looked at and absorbed

These sites have very little blog like interaction to reign in the obvious BS as FR does to do that for them.

In the long run I thinks its a good thing because the more BS people are exposed to the more they actually want to be informed, it is better than the days people swallowed what Uncle Walt said hook, line and sinker without question.

As an example, I have 4 grown adult kids in the 20's. All of them have become very wary of what gets passed off as news

[Milhous]

Unfortunately even doing nothing causes unintended consequences. At this point in time a monolithic monopoly media serving the likes of Walter Cronkite seems far worse then dense kooks trying to justify their hatred of America by creating their own imagined inherent evil lurking in America.

When, after the misreported Tet offensive of 1968 (a U.S. military victory described as a crushing defeat), Cronkite declared Vietnam a "stalemate," it led to Communist victory in Vietnam, toppling dominoes in Southeast Asia, and encouragement to left revolutionary movements worldwide.