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Don't trust anybody in a position to be influential--lawyer, politician--who says the Internet is making anybody "stupid." The Internet is a channel. The info pours, you sift, you compare, you do the research. You know sure as hell truth is a possibility, as it never is in the press. How long did the establishment hide the Northwoods thing? Cover up the war crimes of Kissinger and Nixon? The assassinations? Weapons of mass destruction? Because of the internet, I knew things four years ago that are only becoming mainstream info now. Maligning the internet is a ploy to get people to accept censorship and control.
As this Administration lurches its way to hell, dragging us all in its fulsome wake, I have wondered how it could be? I know things from reading on the Internet that are never NEVER revealed in the establishment press. Who the f@#k owns the press? Who owns the publishing houses? Who owns the cable and news stations? The tv stations? Hello--is anybody there? When the channels of communication are owned by a handful who are all in with each other, how much "information" are we really going to get? We are going to get what "they" want us to get.
I rarely read newspapers, mainstream mags, nor do I watch mainstream tv. Cable I view with wariness, though it comes through from time to time.
The Internet is not making us "stupid" any more than newspapers, magazines, books, or any other form of communication.
The only reason certain people say that is because they want desperately to undermine peoples' faith in their last resort to truth. Not everything is truth, but if you look carefully, you can find it. You'll never find it in the NYT or WaPo unless one them had an accident.
