Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: PING! Michael Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:27:17 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:27:33 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1a4757478e32ef4e46cb912c9993fb74"; logging-data="1226531"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18x/a8jaoLI0LY26IRwgbAQ" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NmjoR+c/0WrdVAmIhbKKLpXa64Y= Bytes: 2606 On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:19:53 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton wrote: >On 2024-11-29, Bruce wrote: > >> And for so many Americans this is all the news they get. Can't they >> open their mind a bit and watch other news sources as well, or are >> they too brainwashed? > >Some of it is "too brainwashed". There's another corporation, Sinclair, >that AIUI is even more right-wing than Fox. They own a bunch of local >television stations. Lovely. >And then there's the people who get all their news from social media, >whose algorithms re-inforce their bubble. > >> I'm left wing but, for practical reasons, I see more right wing Dutch >> news than left wing. It's good to hear opinions that you don't already >> have. > >I try to mix it up, but there are "news" sources I just won't look at. >Infowars, OAN, stuff like that. I don't know those, but I agree that not every news source is worth any attention. >I find that the right-wingers here and on alt.home.repair provide >a fascinating look into the Zeitgeist. Yes, it helps me understand how they can vote for an asshole like Trump and then, in many cases, call themselves Christians. -- Bruce