[GEC]

I agree, but I still think it's a crime that we have to work hard to keep FR moving in search of the truth, when this should be the job of the lamestream media.

How can a web page which costs rougly a quarter of a million dollars a year to run consistently provide faster and often better information than organizations that have budgets in the tens of millions of dollars. I'll grant you that it's the contributions in kind of tens of thousands of freepers who post and correct posts of others. It's the militia equivalent of the media, but you'd think the pros could do a better job than they are.

[jonathonandjennifer]

It's not just that the mainstream media spikes stories that they don't agree with politically, which is bad enough, but they broadcast rumors. People I work with seem to think that if it's on TV, it's true, but stories I pass on from FR are suspect. As you alluded to, I think the opposite is true: threads are vetted almost immediately by FR members to the point where I can make a fairly sure decision on the truthfulness of the post. It never ceases to amaze me the things that many people DON'T know!

Lest I come off sort of arrogant, I don't put myself near the class of those freepers like OKCSubmariner who gather so much detailed information on subjects of interest. And I don't cleim to know all that much - as I've said many times, "I'd like to know just ONE THING for sure before I die!"