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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

The Internet is making us stupid

Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.

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  • Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:36 AM

    It is not the internet's fault

    The internet is invaluable to me. I can read (biased) opinions on all topics from all over the world and then form my own opinion.

    I can't imagine doing that without the internet.

    Like somebody else said here. It is the pretense of the "news media" that they are "unbiased" that messes things up. If they declared their biases from the get go, then one could may be take some of their reporting seriously. But it is the hidden biases dressed as impartiality that kill the truth we all go to the internet to seek.

    It is thanks to the internet that the rest of the world now has a voice just as loud as corporate/news media. And I can go and read them whenever I want and I do. I'm better informed because of it.

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