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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

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... another one what? source of biased information? Google is a commercial enterprise, but it can lead you to informative sites. Whether theses sites are biased or not is another question.

Twitter and Facebook? ... I'm not sure how they fit in. Neither are the kind of place you would be if you wanted to learn something.
Yes, all biased
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Yes, all biased
The internet is just the vehicle which connects us all together.

The Bias is in the user.

God forbid that we'll, one day, get nothing but biased links & copies of biased statements, on all of our Forums (Fora?).

Can't imagine what it'll all be like when every topic/thread is just a cut and paste of some newspaper article , or speech from a worthy.

Perish the thought. (double entendre!)



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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

Originally Posted by Tedc ->
The internet is just the vehicle which connects us all together.

The Bias is in the user.

God forbid that we'll, one day, get nothing but biased links & copies of biased statements, on all of our Forums (Fora?).

Can't imagine what it'll all be like when every topic/thread is just a cut and paste of some newspaper article , or speech from a worthy.

Perish the thought. (double entendre!)



Indeed, why let facts get in the way of opinions, eh .....

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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

Originally Posted by Omah ->
Indeed, why let facts get in the way of opinions, eh .....

Do newspapers print facts, or stories?

Where "Facts are things that really happened, in the way they say they happened!)

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"a thing that is known or proved to be true."
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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

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Do newspapers print facts, or stories?

Where "Facts are things that really happened, in the way they say they happened!)

NOUN

"a thing that is known or proved to be true."
You should bear that in mind when your posting dross from the Guardian
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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

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If the centrifugal force of the rotating earth was greater than gravity, wouldn't we all be flung off into space...?

And if the earth stopped spinning, wouldn't we all be pinned to the ground with the force of gravity?

And shouldn't it be measured in lbs per square inch....? Especially in the UK...?
No. And SI units are international including Imperial.
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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

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Do newspapers print facts, or stories?

Where "Facts are things that really happened, in the way they say they happened!)

NOUN

"a thing that is known or proved to be true."
Opinion

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a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

"that, in my opinion, is right"

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You should bear that in mind when your posting dross from the Guardian
When did I do that?

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Re: If You Don't Think the Internet is Biased....

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Opinion

NOUN

a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

"that, in my opinion, is right"

That is also what by far the majority of our media output consists of: opinion.
Nowadays very little of it is based upon fact.

Therefore your opinion may be "right" in that it is "Morally good, justified, or acceptable" based upon what you have read or seen.
It is most certainly not however "right" by being "True or correct as a fact" if no facts or evidence are used as the basis for forming your opinion.

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It's not so much that the media don't post the correct facts, it's the facts that have been omitted that distort the truth and mislead the reader......
 
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