Uller
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nothing to see here said:When you break access to the system down to the lowet common denominator, do not be surprised if the content in the system breaks down with it.
Sure, but it also creates better breaks on the traditional filters. Take the "Rathergate" memos. If it wasn't for the blogs and talk radio, the world would have taken the memos presented by CBS as a matter of fact. Only after bloggers detected the fraud (and that was picked up by talk radio) was CBS forced to retract the story. Same with the torturing of the Koran at Gitmo. No longer and the Mainstream Media say whatever it wants and not get challenged on it. We have other sources of info and that's a good thing.
I check the Drudgereport every day or so. Drudge's schtick is basically to link to other news sources, including ones outside the US. I can't read 500 newspapers a day, but drudge at least points to interesting stories in some of them that the MSM doesn't always pickup (and sometimes this forces the MSM to pick those stories up). I also get to read a lot of news from outside the US that way...again, a good thing.
What you are failing to recognize is that the responsibility for filtering media is no on the consumer. That is exactly where it should be. Just like choosing what kind of car you want to drive, what RPG you want to play or whatever. There are a lot of crappy D20 products out there, but that doesn't mean the OGL concept has lead to an overall degradation of gaming available. It's lead to quite the opposite.
As a reader of the drudge, you have to realize he is a sensationalist. If he sees a story predicting disaster, he links to it, especially if it concerns global warming or meteors falling from the sky. You have to keep that in mind when you follow his links. Almost never will he link to a news story that refutes global warming disasters or any other potential disasters.