Lies of Mass Destruction
// August 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Internet / Web, Politics
Good article a friend sent to me about people lacking the desire to find contrary information in the Internet age. The article specifically is talking about false information in political terms — such as the death squads in the current health care reform debates and falsehoods such as Obama not possessing an American birth certificate. It can obviously also be extrapolated into the Internet age as a whole — where while it’s easier than ever to seek out contrary viewpoints, people tend to stick with those sites and crowds that are the most like their opinions and the like. Interesting read.
As both a die-hard Tar Heel and a democrat (who still is unsure who to vote for in the primary), I just had to post this video of Obama scrimmaging with the Tar Heels:
