[marktwain]

Good points.

I have been advocating such for many years.

[Chickensoup]

let’s spread it.

Btw Clemmons is a favorite author. Great grands lived across the street from him years ago

[DoodleBob]

One of the things l love about FR is the rich and varied news sources behind the posted articles, and the subsequent opinions FReepers display. I learn so much that I wouldn't otherwise...in fact often when a colleague at work or a friend mentions something happening in the world or some Side story, I heard about it or had an opinion formed days earlier.

I still go to other sites like the WSJ, Financial Times. But I rarely, if ever, watch the news on TV unless it's a breaking story, and when I do I find myself verbally correcting the errors of the talking head.

The First Amendment is to be cherished, but the First Amendment is silent on accuracy of speech. Indeed, the pamphlets published at the founding were vicious. In some ways, things haven't change in hundreds of years. What HAS changed, is this belief that reporting is objective. It isn't, it never was, but today's citizenry thinks we are supposed to get "objective reporting." I KNOW that's a fantasy, but I also know "our side" isn't pure either (American Thinker is often awful, and GP, while better, still gets it wrong too often).

Which, again, is why FR is such a great place. In 10 mins I can get a dozen opinions, reports, and feedback (which are often hysterically funny) covering life, politics, finance, art, anthropology, pandemics, and Møøse. That enables me to form a based opinion, e.g. Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...